Madison Thantu
Software Engineer at Kindo
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolMadison Thantu is a Senior Software Engineer with six years of experience blending machine learning, product development, and interdisciplinary research into human-centered software. With an MS in Computer Science (ML track) from Columbia and dual undergraduate degrees in Cognitive Science and Human Biology & Society from UCLA, she specializes in data-driven product features, recommender systems, and supply-chain-aware web applications. She has shipped full-stack solutions—from Shopify apps and GraphQL-backed services to research simulators for long-term recommender dynamics—and has practical experience wrangling large vehicle telematics datasets at Ford. Madison gravitates toward projects at the intersection of technology, science, and society, aiming to design value-laden systems that prioritize fairness and accessibility. Based in Los Angeles, she brings a research-informed perspective to product engineering, bridging user behavior insights with production-ready code.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Comparative Legal Systems: Focus on Human Rights, Undergraduate Pre-Law Summer Program, A, Comparative Legal Systems: Focus on Human Rights, Undergraduate Pre-Law Summer Program, A at University of the Pacific - McGeorge School of LawMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Columbia University in the City of New YorkHonors College, Human Biology & Society (B.A.) and Cognitive Science (B.S.) with a Specialization in Computing, Honors College, Human Biology & Society (B.A.) and Cognitive Science (B.S.) with a Specialization in Computing at University of California, Los AngelesUniversity College LondonProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
madisonthantu/recursive_LLMs
Oct 2023 - Dec 2023
Repository for course project for COMS 6998 - Language Generation & Summarization
Contributions:2 PRs, 66 pushes, 4 branches in 1 month
madisonthantu/WeatherApp
Aug 2022 - Apr 2024
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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