Andrew Mckenzie
Senior Software Engineer at N3XT
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorAndrew Mckenzie is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience specialising in Erlang and real-time distributed systems, currently driving platform work at N3XT from Belfast. He has a strong track record across messaging, IoT, blockchain and financial trading domains, having led engineering and architecture efforts at Pypestream, Nova Labs (Helium), and trueEX. An active open-source contributor, he bolstered the synrc/n2o Erlang web framework with messaging, file-transfer and binary-handling improvements that optimize data flow in low-latency systems. Comfortable full‑stack, Andrew blends systems-level thinking with product focus to deliver resilient, high-throughput architectures. He’s equally at home shaping platform strategy as he is digging into Erlang core modules, bringing a pragmatic engineer-architect mindset to complex distributed problems.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (10)
data-handling10
web-framework10
websocket10
binary-data10
erlang10
bert9
mqtt8
mqttnet8
tcp7
udp7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
synrc/n2o
Jun 2014 - May 2017
⭕ N2O: Distributed WebSocket Application Server ISO 20922
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:72 commits, 49 PRs, 10 comments in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily focused on enhancing the Erlang-based back-end of the N2O web framework. Their contributions include updates to core files like `n2o_bullet.erl`, `wf.erl`, and `n2o_mq.erl`, indicating work on messaging, core framework functionality, and message queue integration. They also addressed binary data handling within the framework and made updates to the file transfer protocol, suggesting a focus on optimizing data transfer and communication within the web framework. Moreover, the user added a transfer action and added level log for logging events.
application-serverwebsocketwebsocketsmqtttcp
m-2k/erlach
Jan 2015 - May 2022
(⭑•͈ 𓎟 •͈ ) Real-time SPA Imageboad on Websocket written on Erlang
Contributions:14 commits, 27 pushes, 11 tags in 7 years 4 months
erlangwebsocketsingle-page-applicationsbooru-rippercowboy-webserver
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