# Madeleine Dawson

> Software Engineer at Databricks

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/madeleinedawson

My interests include backend engineering, systems design, and machine learning.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Databricks
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
ML Training

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
F1 Query Planning and Optimization
Google Cloud Access Transparency

### Software Engineering Intern @ Snap Inc.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater Los Angeles Area
- Back-end engineer with security team
- Designed and implemented a system to track user actions on suspicious login emails using Google Cloud Platform
- Updated mobile UI for suspicious link warnings

### Software Engineering Intern @ Yelp
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Web development within i18n team
- Improved performance of internal web app by 40x and upgraded its UI
- Wrote Chrome extension for dynamically monitoring translation formatting on a third-party site

### Software Engineering Intern @ TripAdvisor
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Full-stack work with Android team
- Implemented selective caching protocol for API calls
- Upgraded UI to use Material Design principles

### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, InfoLab
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Greater Boston Area
- Used jQuery to overhaul web app for START natural language search engine API
- Wrote regex scripts in Scheme and Ruby to scrape and organize structured data from the web

### Technical Intern @ D-Rev
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Researched global poverty rates using World Bank data on income quintiles
- Constructed LED circuits for phototherapy device prototypes


## Education
### Master of Engineering - MEng in Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

### The Harker School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/madeleinedawson

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Last updated: 2026-04-05