# Aaron Mekonnen

> Software Engineer @ Tarana Wireless, Inc.

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

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Tarana Wireless, Inc.
Jan 2022 – Present | Milpitas, CA
- internal tools and infrastructure, Python and Go based microservices
- distributed systems on AWS including task orchestration services and CI/CD pipelines
- virtualization tooling and automated deployment pipelines for cloud-native infrastructure

### Software Engineer @ Randstad
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022
- conversational AI engines (chatbots) using DialogFlow, FastAPI, AsyncIO, and NLP models deployed on Google Cloud Run
- automated testing and CI/CD pipelines for scalable GCP-based chat applications

### Software Engineer @ Abbott
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | St Paul, Minnesota, United States
- test automation infrastructure and CI/CD tooling using Python
- device interfaces using gRPC and AMQP

### Undergraduate Research Fellow @ University of Minnesota
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area
- autonomous navigation and motion planning algorithms for UAVs and mobile robots using ROS, Gazebo, and sensor fusion techniques
- robotic control systems for dynamic environments with sampling-based planning algorithms


## Education
### Master of Computer Science
Arizona State University

### Bachelor of Computer Engineering
University of Minnesota


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/aaron-mekonnen
- Portfolio: https://aaronm.dev

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Last updated: 2026-04-11