Brendan Mckenzie
Engineering Director at Pokko
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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SeniorBrendan Mckenzie is an engineering director and serial technical founder with 12 years of professional software experience and a two-decade entrepreneurial background in Melbourne. He has led engineering teams across agencies and product companies—most recently at Howatson+Company while running startups Pokko and Take Off Go—bringing a pragmatic blend of hands-on development and strategic delivery. Brendan’s cross-industry experience spans finance, retail, education, health, charity and property, enabling him to translate diverse business needs into reliable, maintainable systems. Known for strong client communication and negotiation, he pairs technical problem-solving with team leadership, whether building teams from the ground up or steering mature engineering functions. A flexible operator comfortable as both individual contributor and director, he often applies lessons from freelancing and ownership to streamline process and improve client outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (149)
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
brendanmckenzie/scrypt
Jul 2014 - Aug 2017
Contributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 3 years 1 month
brendanmckenzie/takeoffgo-website
Dec 2020 - Feb 2023
Take Off Go public website
Contributions:92 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 2 months
golang
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