Madison Blake
Principal Engineer at Shield AI
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMadison Blake is a Principal Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience designing and delivering large-scale, flexible systems at Shield AI, where they progressed from software engineer to principal technical lead. Trained as a computer engineer (M.S., Virginia Tech; B.S., Clemson), Madison specializes in low-level and performance-critical development using C, C++, C#, and MATLAB, and applies that expertise to real-time machine learning and autonomy problems. Their background includes research-driven algorithm design for activity classification and practical engineering improvements—like parallelizing automated test frameworks and building centralized test databases—to reduce human error and cycle time. Based in Washington, D.C., they combine rigorous academic methods with production-grade engineering, often bridging research prototypes into deployable systems for autonomy and embedded platforms.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering at Clemson UniversityMaster of Science (M.S.) Computer Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech
English
Github Skills (7)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
MadisonTBlake/BatchStabilizer
Mar 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:3 releases, 29 commits, 26 pushes in 3 months
MadisonTBlake/DeltekTimesheetChecker
Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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