Prashant Makwana
Senior Software Engineer at Airbnb
Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPrashant Makwana is a Senior Software Engineer based in Virginia with a focused track record building backend platform and search systems at companies including Airbnb, edX, Oscar Health, and BlackRock. With around two years of post-degree industry experience listed and earlier roles dating back to 2013, he combines deep production experience in billing and search teams with rapid progression into senior and lead engineering roles. He specializes in reliable, scalable backend services that power search and billing workflows, often operating at the intersection of platform reliability and product-facing performance. His career path shows an appetite for complex domain rotations—moving from Cassandra and portfolio modeling to search and billing—indicating strong systems thinking and adaptability. Now at Airbnb, he continues to shape platform-level systems that enable other engineering teams to ship faster. Trained at Stony Brook (BS) and Cornell (M.Eng.), he brings both solid academic foundations and practical cross-domain experience to engineering challenges.
1 year of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Computer Science, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Computer Science at Cornell UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Stony Brook University
English
Github Skills (13)
lms9
edx9
django8
catalog8
backend8
mongodb7
python7
portal7
react5
javascript4
frontend4
experiences4
typescript3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
pmakwana93/edx-platform-fork
Jun 2024 - Sep 2024
The Open edX LMS & Studio, powering education sites around the world!
Contributions:9 pushes, 8 branches in 3 months
openedx/edx-enterprise
Jun 2024 - Sep 2024
Contributions:7 releases, 7 reviews, 14 PRs in 3 months
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