Malaika Handa
Software Engineer at Google
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolMalaika Handa is a Software Engineer with eight years of experience building data-driven systems and machine learning solutions, currently contributing to Google Maps Mobile in New York. Trained at Carnegie Mellon in Statistics & Machine Learning, she brings a blend of production engineering and research experience—from migrating model-fitting services and network distillation at Google to redesigning constrained clustering and record-linkage tools at Crime Lab NY. Her work spans Python, scalable ETL, and model interpretation, and she has a track record of turning messy, long-running datasets into reproducible pipelines and visual debuggers. Malaika also translates technical ideas for broader audiences: she authored a data-driven Pudding piece quantifying skin-tone representation in Vogue covers and has spoken at PyData NYC on that project. She mentors and teaches regularly—supporting ninth graders in CS and leading university labs—demonstrating a commitment to making data and code more accessible. Colleagues describe her as both pragmatic and curious, equally comfortable optimizing production pipelines and probing the societal questions that data can illuminate.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at The International School of FlorenceBachelor’s Degree, Statistics & Machine Learning, 3.6, Bachelor’s Degree, Statistics & Machine Learning, 3.6 at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Spanish, Italian
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
malaikahanda/clothes
Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:58 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
malaikahanda/model_project
Aug 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 7 days
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