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.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (106)
flexbox10
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resize-images9
azure-functions9
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aws9
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image-server9
aws-lambda9
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
brendanmckenzie/use-graphile
Nov 2019 - Nov 2022
Contributions:8 releases, 55 commits, 44 pushes in 3 years
brendanmckenzie/scrypt
Jul 2014 - Aug 2017
Contributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 3 years 1 month
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