Kirby Mckenzie is a Miami-based software engineer with a decade of experience building scalable, customer-facing products across web and collaboration platforms. They’ve led greenfield initiatives—most notably bootstrapping an event-sourced Ruby backend and infrastructure for Culture Amp’s Shoutouts product that launched to customers like Canva and Stack Overflow—and have strong hands-on experience across React, Node, Ruby, Kafka, Docker, and AWS. Kirby blends frontend craft (visualization dashboards and reusable React components) with backend and infrastructure ownership, including observability, CI/CD, and security reviews. Comfortable in both startup and enterprise contexts, they’ve repeatedly turned prototype ideas into production services and improved long-term quality via testing and docs. A University of Otago software engineering graduate, Kirby brings pragmatic engineering paired with an eye for developer experience and scalable architecture.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Information Science Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Information Science Software Engineering at University of Otago
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