# Maria Khartchenko > SWE @ Netflix, Princeton University alum Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/mariakhartchenko Junior Software Engineer at Netflix. Super interested in everything ML, healthcare, and neurotech related. Also fascinated by linguistics and languages - fluent in French, Russian, and English, and have an intermediate level in German. Proficient in Java, Python, C, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and SQL, and have web application development and Machine Learning experience. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Netflix Jan 2024 – Present | Los Gatos, California, United States ### Chapel Choir singer @ Princeton University Chapel Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Princeton, New Jersey, United States I sing at every Sunday service with the Princeton University Chapel CHoir ### Staff Writer for the Prospect @ The Daily Princetonian Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | Princeton, New Jersey, United States ### International Internship Program Student Ambassador @ International Internship Program Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | Princeton, New Jersey, United States Spread information about the IIP program to new students, help them with their applications, and prepare them for living and working in a foreign country. ### French Tutor @ Unknown Jan 2017 – Jan 2024 Tutor students of various levels and ages in French. In the past year, I have tutored 15 students, ages ranging from 5 - adult ### Machine Learning Intern @ Spotify Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, United States - Performed feature engineering and built causal ML prediction model (estimating the long-term value of consumption) using Neural Networks and Decision Tree algorithms; improved MSE of model by 5.5% - Collaborated with team of ML and backend engineers to productionalize solution as a microservice to recommender system - Simultaneously took on product management tasks for causal ML project during engineering internship ### Computational Biology Intern @ LIRMM Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Montpellier, Occitanie, France Worked with evaluating clustering algorithms on ribosomic profiles, and then using different libraries to predict ORF and TIS sites in Riboseq data. ### Council Member @ Butler College Council - Princeton University Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 Plan events for students living in Butler, one of Princeton’s residential colleges ### Committee Member @ Princeton University Campus and Community Affairs Committee Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 Work with connecting Princeton undergraduate students with the local community ### Machine Learning Intern, Social Analytics Team @ Qatar Computing Research Institute Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 - Coded and trained a classifier to predict the factuality and bias of news websites based on their infrastructure features (WHOIS records, hosting information, certificate features) - Built upon previous research done in disinformation detection by adding additional features and using human-annotated labels - Received 2nd place out of 31 summer intern projects ### Biomedical Engineering Summer Intern @ Safe Toddles Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | New York, New York, United States Assisted in the building of novel toddler canes for "Safe Toddles" (www.safetoddles.org), an organization at City University of New York (CUNY)'s Biomedical Engineering department, dedicated to making free canes for blind children. 3D-printing, cutting, and assembling of various parts of the canes and the belts attached to the toddler. ## Education ### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Computer Science Princeton University ### High School Diploma The Pennington School ### Dual enrollment Princeton University ### Piano Performance Westminster Conservatory of Music ### Middle School Diploma French American School of Princeton ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/maria-khartchenko-43a56320b --- Source: https://flows.cv/mariakhartchenko JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/mariakhartchenko/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05