Aida Mengistu
About Aida Mengistu
Aida Mengistu is an Associate Software Development Engineer at Expedia, Inc. in Seattle, Washington, with a background in web development and administrative roles.
Current Role at Expedia, Inc.
Aida Mengistu currently works at Expedia, Inc. as an Associate Software Development Engineer. In this role since 2015, she has been based in Seattle, Washington, United States. Her responsibilities include contributing to the development of internal tools for managing experiments and viewing data logged into UIS Prime using JavaScript and CSS. She also employs microservices architecture for clickstream data collection through server-side and client-side libraries using Java, Scala, JS, and Node.
Previous Experience at General Assembly
In 2015, Aida Mengistu worked at General Assembly as a Student Web Developer in New York, United States, for three months. During her time there, she gained essential skills in web development which helped shape her career in the field.
Role at King County
Aida Mengistu served as an Administrative Specialist III at King County from 2007 to 2015, a duration of eight years. Prior to this, she held the position of Administrative Specialist II at Public Health – Seattle & King County from 2003 to 2007, for four years. These roles were based in Seattle, Washington, United States.
Translation Work
Aida Mengistu is an Independent Contractor working as a Translator in Canada. In this role, she provides translation services, leveraging her linguistic skills.
Educational Background
Aida Mengistu studied at General Assembly in 2015, focusing on Web Development. She also holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from Western Washington University.
Technical Skills and Projects
Aida Mengistu has developed several technical skills and completed numerous projects in her current role. Notably, she conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to identify data quality issues using Adobe Omniture Workspace and Excel. She created Qubole Spark notebooks and executed SQL queries for data analysis and developed Grafana dashboards to monitor system health. Additionally, she acts as a backup primary focal for the Cloud Program, assisting with cloud improvement requests. She utilizes AWS technologies such as AWS Kinesis, S3, EC2, and ECS.