our focus
Software Engineering
From open-source technologies to the .NET stack, we’ve got your covered. We’ve helped our clients hire software engineers with experience in programming languages as diverse as Python, React and Java.
Data Science and Analytics
Whether your marketing team needs to improve your user acquisition model or you want to refine your sales operations process, we know where to look for the brightest analysts and scientists.
Cloud Infrastructure
From DevOps to Site Reliability, we’ll find you an experienced cloud infrastructure engineer, regardless of which cloud IaaS you’ve adopted.
About Us
Makena Partners was established in 2012 as a technology services firm focused on results.
We help our clients solve their business technology problems, both big and small. Our solutions engineers are highly certified technology professionals, available across a variety of disciplines to help solve complicated technology challenges for businesses of all sizes.
We are uniquely positioned to support your technology needs, with a distinct focus on cloud computing and automation.
We put our heart into everything we do. We'll never work on anything we can't ourselves be excited about.
We operate with a "line of force" methodology - ensuring that we deliver results with energy and enthusiasm.
We do this because we strive to add value through ethical and honest work.
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Recruiting is Marketing
In a business organization, the marketing team is responsible for cultivating the brand/product/service messaging, determining (and optimizing) the best channels to get that message out to the world, and generating interest from prospective customers. Ultimately, their success (like their counterparts on the sales side) is measured by revenue growth — are we getting a good Read more about Recruiting is Marketing[…]
Should You Hire An On-Demand Recruiter?
Your company is growing fast and you’re struggling to find qualified candidates to fill your pipeline. As a busy HR Manager, you’ve got your hands full managing payroll, benefits, employee experience, not to mention helping build and define company culture. The last thing you have time to do is spend hours preparing job descriptions, posting Read more about Should You Hire An On-Demand Recruiter?[…]
Candidate Sourcing Strategies for Everyone
A good candidate sourcing model depends on a few key factors. If done correctly, organizations can decrease their dependency on job boards and third-party recruiting firms to generate candidate flow. The following tips should help you determine first if you have the resources in place to run a successful candidate sourcing program, or whether it Read more about Candidate Sourcing Strategies for Everyone[…]
Start Your Own Recruiting Firm
There’s no shortage of recruiting and staffing firms, that much we can all agree on. According to the American Staffing Association there are about 20,000 staffing and recruiting companies, which altogether operate around 39,000 offices in the US alone. It seems like everywhere you turn, another ten spring up, adding to an already saturated market. Read more about Start Your Own Recruiting Firm[…]
How To Hire Software Engineers
Hiring software engineers can be one of the more difficult challenges any business leader must navigate through: there are simply not enough qualified candidates available for the sheer volume of open positions at companies in the United States and beyond. As such, employers are beginning to consider new approaches to recruiting and hiring, as well Read more about How To Hire Software Engineers[…]
Sr. Business Intelligence Consultant
Professional Summary: • 11+ years of strong and rich Business Intelligence experience with exposure of some versatile, medium to large scaleDatawarehousing implementations • Have Analyzed, Designed and created Data Structures/Architectures/Models for various Data Warehouses. • Have implemented various Custom and Pre-Packaged Datawarehousing Projects primarily using reporting tools like OBIEE, Business Objects, Brio etc and ETL Read more about Sr. Business Intelligence Consultant[…]
Business Intelligence/Data Engineer
Request Resume Great resource for any Reporting/Dashboard projects – can implement Tableau or Microsoft Power BI and build out custom data warehouses/reporting environments. SUMMARY: • 12+ years of experience in Business Intelligence, Data Analysis & Reporting, Data Visualization, Database Administration, IT Change & Release Management, Technical Support, Training, Infrastructure Management & Project Management Read more about Business Intelligence/Data Engineer[…]
Enterprise Account Executive
Request Resume Experienced SaaS sales professional seeking new opportunity with progressive tech company in Seattle area. Experience: Email Marketing Provider, Seattle,WA, December 2014-Present Direct of Business Development, December 2014-Present • Handled six figure sales cycle of multiple SaaS email marketing platforms as a reseller/consultant • Sold first large deal within 2 months of hire Read more about Enterprise Account Executive[…]
Analytics Developer
Request Resume Objective: Software development position which will make use of my experience and ability while delivering intelligent, efficient solutions and high code quality ㅡ Languages & Skills Java, Python, JavaScript, Bash, Transact-SQL, MySQL, Google BigQuery, jQuery, HTML, CSS, Google App Script, Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics Individual Qualification Certification, ga.js, analytics.js Prior Experience using: Read more about Analytics Developer[…]
Sr DevOps Engineer – $125k+
Request Resume Recently relocated to Seattle from East Coast, in search of new DevOps role in a Linux or hybrid Linux/Windows environment. DevOps Engineer 2/2015 – Present Manage 200-300 servers on AWS through Chef and Terraform Monitor servers via Sensu / Uchiwa and VictorOps Administer Percona DBs running on EC2 instances Created log aggregation system Read more about Sr DevOps Engineer – $125k+[…]