Johanne Medina
Co-founder, CTO at PRONTO LLC
Doha Metropolitan Area Qatar
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Top SchoolJohanne Medina is a Co-founder and CTO with 8 years of technical experience and a Master’s in Data Science and Engineering, blending full-stack engineering with applied AI research. She currently develops and deploys LLM-based educational systems at QCRI and leads product and engineering at PRONTO, a fashion-tech startup that merges her parallel nine-year runway modeling career with tech. Her background spans web and mobile apps, data engineering, IoT, NFC, AR, and FAIR-aligned research data management, with hands-on work on Cipherbot, a cross-lingual AI chatbot used in real classrooms. Johanne’s research focuses on improving LLM reliability, domain transferability, and hallucination detection, while her startup experience includes an award-winning MVP and a Best Startup in Qatar recognition. She is comfortable shipping end-to-end systems (React, FastAPI, MongoDB, ASP.NET) and translating research prototypes into production-facing products. Notably, she pairs deep technical rigor from academic research with practical product instincts honed on runways and in startup leadership.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
The Cornell, Maryland, Max Planck Pre-doctoral Research School 2023, Computer Science, The Cornell, Maryland, Max Planck Pre-doctoral Research School 2023, Computer Science at Max Planck SocietyMaster of Science - MS, Data Science and Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Data Science and Engineering at Hamad Bin Khalifa University
English, Filipino, Arabic
Github Skills (37)
react-native9
ios9
android9
react9
cross-platform8
metadata8
mobile7
linkedin7
eagle7
dub6
data-catalog6
singing6
weechat6
pulseaudio6
hardware6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
johmedina/tap2con
Feb 2020 - Apr 2020
Leveraging Near Field Communication and Cross-Platform Mobile Applications to Simplify the Configuration of Internet of Things Devices and Services
Contributions:24 commits, 20 pushes in 2 months
connectivityleveragingnear-field-communicationmobile-developmentcommunication
johmedina/Food-Ordering-System
Oct 2017 - Feb 2020
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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