Madeline Briere
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMadeline Briere is a Senior Software Engineer at Google with nine years of experience building and hardening large-scale ranking infrastructure for Search. A Duke Summa Cum Laude graduate in CS and ECE, she has driven latency improvements and API redesigns that collectively save the company the equivalent of tens of engineer-years annually. She owns critical tooling used daily by 1,200+ ranking engineers and has designed anomaly detection and monitoring that helped prevent and mitigate over 100 major outages. Beyond shipping systems, she codifies knowledge as owner of “How Search Ranking Works” and teaches new engineers, blending deep technical expertise with strong mentorship. Her background spans startups (automated trading, voice recognition hardware/software) and hands-on hardware/ML prototyping, reflecting a rare mix of software, signal-processing, and systems design experience. Based in Mountain View, she combines production-scale reliability work with a knack for translating complex research and prototypes into maintainable operational systems.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
N/A, Science, Ethics and Society, 4.0, N/A, Science, Ethics and Society, 4.0 at University of OxfordBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 4.0, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 4.0 at Duke UniversityN/A, Psychology, 4.0, N/A, Psychology, 4.0 at University of ConnecticutHigh School Degree, N/A, High School Degree, N/A at Edwin O. Smith High School
Latin, English
Github Skills (11)
java9
sql9
spark8
sql-query8
big-data8
hive8
database8
presto8
hadoop8
trino7
query-engine6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
madelinebriere/docker-tutorial
Feb 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:62 commits, 47 pushes in 2 months
madelinebriere/congestion
Sep 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:31 pushes, 1 branch in 29 days
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