Madeleine Dawson
Software Engineer at Databricks
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMadeleine Dawson is a software engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with three years of professional experience building backend systems, ML training pipelines, and query optimization features at Databricks and Google. She brings a strong systems-design foundation from MIT (BS and MEng in Computer Science) and a track record of shipping performance-focused backend improvements across consumer and cloud platforms. At Google she worked on F1 query planning and Cloud Access Transparency, and at Databricks she focuses on machine learning training infrastructure—combining low-level performance thinking with ML workflows. Early internships at Snap, Yelp, and TripAdvisor show a consistent ability to improve product performance and security, including a 40x speedup on an internal app and design of suspicious-login tracking. Madeleine pairs production-facing engineering with research experience from MIT CSAIL, suggesting she enjoys bridging prototype work and scalable systems. Colleagues would describe her as a pragmatic engineer who trades neat algorithms for measurable improvements in reliability and developer productivity.
3 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 4.8/5.0, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 4.8/5.0 at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyThe Harker School
English, Chinese, Spanish
Github Skills (59)
apache-spark10
pytorch10
spark10
python10
evaluation10
data-science10
r10
data-manipulation10
llama10
pandas10
big-data10
machine-learning10
inference10
hadoop10
apache10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
maddiedawson/datasets
Apr 2023 - Jan 2024
🤗 The largest hub of ready-to-use datasets for ML models with fast, easy-to-use and efficient data manipulation tools
Contributions:6 PRs, 100 pushes, 10 branches in 9 months
maddiedawson/automl
Sep 2022 - Aug 2023
Contributions:98 pushes, 16 branches in 11 months
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