Who builds MadMatcher.

A founder and two advisors from UW–Madison’s Magellan Data Management Group.

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Dev Ahluwalia

Founder & CEO, MadMatcher LLC

Founded MadMatcher in 2026. Completed an MS in Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (May 2026) and a BA in Computer Science at UC Berkeley with a certificate in Entrepreneurship & Technology. Contributed to Sparkly, Delex, and MatchFlow as part of UW–Madison’s Magellan Data Management Group (joined Fall 2024).

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AnHai Doan

Advisor

Professor of Computer Sciences at UW–Madison and a longtime entity matching researcher. Leads the Magellan Data Management Group, whose work spans py_entitymatching (VLDB 2016), CloudMatcher (VLDB 2018), and Sparkly (VLDB 2023).

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Derek Paulsen

Advisor

Lead author of the Sparkly paper (VLDB 16(6), 2023) and a core contributor to the Magellan group’s scalable entity matching systems on Apache Spark.

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