Amanda Towler
GenAI Program Lead at SUDO Girl Consulting
Concord, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolAmanda Towler is a technology leader and GenAI program lead at NASA JPL with 11 years of experience bridging research, productization, and mission-driven engineering. She supervises a multidisciplinary team that delivers bespoke research and core GenAI infrastructure for space missions while co-leading lab-wide LLM and Generative AI pilots. Previously she co-founded and served as PI at a woman-owned R&D firm, leading multiple DARPA and IARPA efforts and building tools for counter-child sexual exploitation investigations. Amanda combines academic training in global policy with hands-on program development—having built a CRM to coordinate research portfolios at a university-affiliated lab—and teaches dark web criminology to law students. Her background uniquely blends national-security research, entrepreneurial grit, and practical AI deployment for high-risk, high-reward problems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
American UniversityB.A., Government, Minor in Economics, B.A., Government, Minor in Economics at The University of Texas at AustinMasters, Global Policy Studies, Specialization in the Middle East, Masters, Global Policy Studies, Specialization in the Middle East at The LBJ School of Public Affairs
Github Skills (11)
meta9
catalog9
seed8
nodejs6
laravel6
tld4
domain-name4
creative-commons3
discovery3
security2
hound2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
atowler/darpa_open_catalog
Apr 2015 - Nov 2017
Contributions:6 pushes in 2 years 7 months
metacatalogproject-catalog
TeamHG-Memex/program-index
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 15 days
urlsmemex
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