James Mackenzie
Director, Design Verification
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJames Mackenzie is a Director of Design Verification with 11 years of hands-on ASIC and SoC verification experience, currently leading teams at Microsoft to validate silicon for cutting-edge AI/ML workloads. He progressed from block-level SystemVerilog/UVM development at Intel to full-chip verification methodologies and emulation bring-up at Microsoft, bridging pre-silicon and post-silicon validation across Synopsys ZeBu and Cadence Palladium platforms. Known for building portable test stimulus, multi-UVC subsystem environments, and productivity-boosting verification IP, he pairs technical leadership with mentorship across distributed teams. Based in New York, he’s also a hardware-and-software tinkerer and retro-computer collector who occasionally shares projects on YouTube, reflecting a practical curiosity that informs his systems-level approach.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering at University of Victoria
English
Stackoverflow
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14kreached
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Github Skills (57)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jamesfmackenzie/google-search-parser2
Feb 2017 - Dec 2018
Contributions:15 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
jamesfmackenzie/chocolatekeen
Jul 2019 - Nov 2022
Chocolate Keen is a reverse engineering of Commander Keen in C/C++ and SDL. The goal is to be super accurate versus the original
Contributions:75 commits, 54 pushes in 3 years 5 months
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