Andrew Mackenzie
Principal Product Manager at Solace
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolAndrew Mackenzie is a Pragmatic Marketing-certified Principal Product Manager with over 18 years in product roles and more than two decades in enterprise software across BI, security, healthcare, digital media and supply chain planning. He specializes in bringing complex, data-driven and infrastructure-heavy products to market as part of cross-functional Agile teams, with deep hands-on understanding of backend servers, in-memory databases, automation, and SaaS operations. At Kinaxis and Solace he focused on high-performance data platforms and cloud productization, and at Irdeto led secure telemetry and monitoring solutions using the ELK stack. Passionate about open source, Linux, distributed systems and emerging languages like Go and Elixir, he combines technical fluency with pragmatic product strategy. Based in Ottawa, he has a track record of translating low-level technical constraints into customer-facing roadmaps and revenue-generating offerings. A consistent theme across his career is solving operational complexity—making developer- and operator-friendly products that scale in real-world environments.
12 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Business/Commerce, General, Business/Commerce, General at Dalhousie UniversityBusiness Computer Programming diplomma, Computer Programming, Business Computer Programming diplomma, Computer Programming at Nova Scotia Community College
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Github Skills (156)
javascript10
html10
code-editor10
spring-cloud-stream10
winston10
ls10
elixir10
css10
logger10
php10
command-line10
editor9
linux9
regular-expression9
cli9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
mackenza/php-composer
Oct 2014 - Jul 2015
Contributions:32 commits, 27 pushes in 8 months
Brackets-PHP/Brackets-PHP-SmartHints
Jul 2014 - Jul 2015
Trying to build a robust code hint/intelligence extension for PHP code in the Brackets editor
Contributions:8 releases, 145 commits, 1 PR in 11 months
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