Rory Mackenzie
Senior Director Of Software Engineering at Elastic
Fenwick, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRory Mackenzie is Senior Director of Software Engineering at Elastic, leading efforts to evolve Elasticsearch architecture and optimise it for Elastic Cloud. He has a track record of running large, distributed organisations—previously managing around 70 engineers, testers and technical writers across Scotland and the USA—and focuses on concurrency, cluster state, replication, stateless operation, security and data ingestion. A strong advocate for code quality, development standards and automation, he combines strategic architecture work with hands-on engineering discipline born from years writing C# and Java and building test automation like Selenium test harnesses. Rory is passionate about developing others, delegating responsibility and creating progression opportunities to maximise team productivity. He holds an MEng (Distinction) in Computer Science from the University of Strathclyde and frames technical decisions from an end-user perspective to deliver practical, high-quality products. Behind the scenes he’s experienced in coordinating quarterly releases and complex customer solutions, demonstrating delivery at scale as well as technical leadership.
4 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Wallace High SchoolMEng with Distinction, Computer Science, MEng with Distinction, Computer Science at University of Strathclyde
Github Skills (10)
restful10
elasticsearch10
search-engine10
opensearch10
java10
visualizations9
elastic8
kibana8
observability7
elastic-stack6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (3)
elastic/elasticsearch
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
Free and Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
Contributions:5 reviews, 17 comments, 7 issues in 1 year 9 months
restfulsearch-engineopensearchelasticsearchjava
elastic/docs
Dec 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:1 review in 1 day
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