# Makonnen Makonnen

> Software Engineer

Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/makonnen

Programmer.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Nextdoor
Jan 2021 – Present
Backend engineer. Currently on the DX team working on enhancing the developer experience at Nextdoor by helping create tooling, optimize performance, workflows, and collaboration. 

In the past I worked on both engagement and growth: worked on features for the posting and commenting flows on the main feed as part of the FeedUX team, a few maps related features, and building out product infrastructure for various growth driving features + running various growth experiments using those said systems.

### Research Assistant, Computer Science Department @ University of Virginia
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Charlottesville, VA
Project aimed to mitigate health safety issues in digital health applications, with a primary goal of minimizing conflicts and safety violations. Utilized Selenium and BeautifulSoup for efficient data collection, ensuring a engineer and user friendly schemas when stored -- mainly for researchers, ML engineers, and data scientists. Implemented a demonstration version of the application using Apache Lucene and Django.

### Software Engineer Intern @ CME Group
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Chicago, IL
DevOps work to deploy market data applications by leveraging Jenkins, complemented by the integration of Ansible. The project achieved a noteworthy reduction in deployment time, decreasing it by 10 hours.

### Orchestra Director Assistant Teacher @ Alexandria City Public Schools
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Alexandria, VA
Conducted small group instructional sessions for a minimum of four musicians in three different groups. Helped manage the sheet music library, tasks including the organization and distribution of the sheet music.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
University of Virginia

### T.C. Williams High School


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-13