Verdi Ergün is a serial entrepreneur and founder of Punch Digital Agency which is the premier design firm in San Francisco. Verdi’s unique insight into problem-solving and head-on approach to challenges has allowed Punch and his other brands to go beyond traditional growth and reach for the stars.

Punch

Founder, CEO
San Francisco Bay Area
Apr 2015 – Present

Punch Digital Agency is a full-service digital agency that specializes in researching, planning, and executing transformational business change for clients.

Numin

Founder, Managing Partner
San Francisco Bay Area
Nov 2017 – Present

Numin researches, deploys and markets quant trading strategies. Our quant trading strategies are primarily based on mathematical techniques to identify profit opportunities arising from subtle anomalies affecting the price of various securities.

Skipify

Chief Technology Officer
San Francisco Bay Area
Oct 2018 – Present

Verdi was involved early on as a consultant and joined full-time as the Chief Technology Officer for Skipify - a platform that makes online payments easier than ever before.

Pantrei

Founder
San Francisco Bay Area
Oct 2020 – Present

Pantrei is a fast-fashion e-commerce leader that curates fashion items, accessories, and style items.

Fetson

Founder
San Francisco Bay Area
May 2021 – Present

Fetson designs, manufacturers, and markets handmade luxury leather lifestyle accessories. We offer our own Fetson collection, as well as deep collaborations with a diverse set of artists as collaborative collections.

Recrowdly

Founder
San Francisco Bay Area
Sep 2021 – Present

Recrowdly creates 2D and 3D animated videos for any company to tell their story, be it for a product, service, or the company itself!

Zwilt

Founder
San Francisco Bay Area
Aug 2021 – Present

Zwilt is a marketplace of engineers, designers, marketers, and more than that pairs global talent with the world top firms for cost-effective solutions.

Leelar

Founder
San Francisco Bay Area
Aug 2021 – Present

Leelar is an A/B testing house that helps companies identify areas of improvement with a data-driven approach to drive leads and increase conversions.

Joodla

Founder
San Francisco Bay Area
Oct 2021 – Present

Joodla creates custom AI/ML models for companies to streamline operations, improve productivity, and scale operations.

Google

Applications engineer
Mountain View, California
Oct 2018 – Present

Built systems to help design, install, and maintain Google's networks, deployed to Google's cloud platforms, which provide world class network inventory, design, and analysis tools.

Instore

Founder
San Francisco Bay Area
Feb 2009 – Apr 2014

Client iOS, server Node.js; web application Ruby on Rails. Persistence across PostgresQL, MongoDB, and Redis. SOA with services for orders, mailers, users, social, and public apis. REST API with public exposure via Oauth 2.0 authentication protocol. Hosted on AWS with auto-balanced app servers and separate db servers in a master-slave RAID-10 configuration. App severs were behind elastic load balancers with elastic IPs. Because small businesses should have access to similar tools as the big guys.

Koblie

Applications engineer
Mountain View, California
Oct 2018 – Present

Built systems to help design, install, and maintain Google's networks, deployed to Google's cloud platforms, which provide world class network inventory, design, and analysis tools.

Education

University of
Michigan
Honors
Mountain View, California
2001 – 2006

Publications

Memory Management in Low Power Embedded Systems

Jul 26, 2014

Power consumption for mobile systems designers have become a first class concern alongside performance and design. Typically the lowest power processors are 4 bit or 32khz processors with extremely lower power cycles. Memory transposition between program and SRAM on Arduino, or for example between the processor core and Icache on other systems, 50 to 80% of runtime power volatility can come from memory traffic caused by transfers between off-chip and on-chip memory.

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REST API Design Antipatterns

Jul 26, 2014

Let me start by saying I’ve built several REST APIs. Good API design falls into two categories (1) Clearly following good object oriented design principles and (2) clearly following the HTTP 1.1 specification.My intent is that by viewing antipatterns, examples of what not to do, you can come away with a good sense of what should be done, and I’ll even give a few good API Design examples later.

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MongoDB

Sep 15, 2013

Ever want to see a list of help commands in mongo? Just type db.help() that and other useful features are up next:When I first started learning MongoDB I didn’t know really where to begin. I started with ORMs built on top of Mongo like MongoId and Mongoose, but what I should have done is started with the CLI tools and database itself. 10Gen has great documentation on their website but I have a Cliff Notes version of some of the oughta knows and gotchas I’d like to share. First, what many developers don’t know is that when within the mongo shell you can execute any valid JavaScript. In fact, the mongo shell is a JavaScript shell.

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I give my unconditional recommendation for Verdi. Stew

Stewart Nelson
Co-Founder at I Love Your Home
Nov 2017 – Present

Verdi is a true visionary and entrepreneur. He is a unique combination of creativity and leadership. Verdi is the best manager I have had. He is organized and timely in his responses, provides insightful feedback, and gives you the freedom to try different ideas while pushing you to innovate.

Melissa Barker, MBA
Business Coach | Social Media Consultant | Speaker & Author, Social Media
Nov 2017 – Present

Verdi is the consummate entrepreneur - no matter what obstacle lay ahead of him, he conquers it with unrelenting energy and enthusiasm. Working with him through the First Step Fund, I've come to know him as a charismatic leader with an innate ability to rally the troops, as well as a strategic thinker, who has already planned one step ahead of everyone else.

Zachary Campau
Product and Technology Leader
Nov 2017 – Present

Even under stressful situations with an indefinitely amount of tasks to approach, Verdi is able to lead a company in a successful direction. His passion for entrepreneurship and focus on problem solving makes him both a powerful leader and a great mentor. I highly recommend Verdi to anyone seeking business with him or just simple advice.

Cheng Chen
Entrepreneur in Residence
Nov 2017 – Present