👋 I’m Madhura, an experienced edtech leader. My superpower is building learning experiences that scale.
(1) 10+ years of experience leading teams at Google, Teach For India, and startups.
(2) Built learning experiences supporting 100,000+ learners in K-12 and early career stages
(3) Applied researcher in education and AI, psychology, and workforce learning
(4) Graduate student at Stanford’s Learning Design & Technology MS
MSc Psychology alum at University of St. Andrews (UK)
I spent five years as founding Head of Learning & Content at Extern. We created the externship, and built from 0 → 60,000 externs.
Solving the problem of a lack of early work experiences for college students, we built Externships: a flexible, remote project with a company that combines real experience with structured training to help students build confidence and career-ready skills.
As employee #5, I led Learning & Content where we designed 3-8 week Externships where students would get real-world experience with global companies.
I collaborated to work with our host companies, who were Fortune 100 partners like PwC, Meta, Amazon, Snap, Beats by Dre, and others.
I led product at Firki, India’s first teacher training platform. We scaled from 800 → 300,000 teachers.
Firki empowers classrooms at scale and has supported millions of students, by equipping teachers in low-income schools with high-quality pedagogy and leadership training.
We built self-paced courses, live webinars, peer-learning circles, and observation/feedback tools to make teacher development accessible anywhere.
In addition to product, I led impact measurement, monitoring, and evaluation proving that Firki’s blended learning model works.
I’ve also worked in big-tech, academia, and nonprofits.
Ad Operations Automation and Trainer
@ Google Hyderabad
Product specialist for ad review automation for 10 billion ads. GTrainer for Ad review automation and Unconscious Bias.
Learning Design Challenge Winner @ Stanford Accelerator for Learning
I won the Prototyping Award at Stanford’s Learning Design Challenge 2026. My winning project was Vaccine Confidence Navigator, a patient education tool that helps families address their concerns around childhood vaccines and navigate misinformation.
Learning & Content Product Consultant @ Uable (now Power Club)
I was hired by Uable, an alternative education app, to build a brand new community for parents of learners.
🎓 My own education (on 3 continents)
Stanford Graduate School of Education
(MS Learning, Design, and Technology)
đź“Ť Stanford, USA
Studying and building AI tooling for education
Winner of the Dean’s Collaborative Learning Fund to further education and learning analytics.
St. Andrews University (M.Sc. in Psychology)
đź“Ť Scotland, UK
Conducted quantitative and qualitative research in Social Psychology, which informs my user research and product perspective.
St. Xavier’s College(Bachelor’s in Mass Media)
đź“Ť Mumbai, India
Studied mass media, advertising, and messaging.