Madeline Shortt
Member Of Technical Staff at Anthropic
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMadeline Shortt is a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic with 11 years of software engineering experience building robust backend systems and leading product-focused engineering at startups and established companies. She has held engineering and leadership roles at Airtable (via Balsa acquisition), Slack, and Ripple, bringing a mix of startup founding experience and large-team scalability. Her open-source contributions include core refactors to xrpl.js, improving currency/amount abstractions for the XRP Ledger API—work that highlights attention to maintainability and domain-specific correctness. Madeline’s background in physics and hands-on research at Mount Holyoke and UCSB informs a methodical, experimental approach to engineering problems. She thrives at the intersection of product, operations, and deep technical craftsmanship, often simplifying complex domains through careful refactoring. Based in New York, she pairs technical depth with product sensibility to deliver systems that scale and remain maintainable.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science Physics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science Physics at Mount Holyoke College
Github Skills (13)
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typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
api10
typescript-types10
blockchain9
cryptocurrency9
xrp9
bigjs8
bignumbers8
bignum8
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
XRPLF/xrpl.js
Jun 2015 - Jul 2015
A JavaScript/TypeScript API for interacting with the XRP Ledger in Node.js and the browser
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 2 branches in 26 days
Contributions summary:Madeline primarily contributed to the core functionality of the XRP Ledger JavaScript/TypeScript API. They refactored and restructured the codebase by creating separate value classes to decouple currency math from the Amount class. Furthermore, the user removed unnecessary code and refactored existing code to improve the efficiency and readability of the code base. These changes focused on the internal representation of amounts and currencies, improving maintainability and potentially performance.
rippleapibrowserjavascriptnodejscryptocurrencies
mwshortt/ripple-lib
Jun 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 26 days
apibrowsernode-jsjavascriptnodejs
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