Kirby Mckenzie
Software Engineer at Spring Health
Miami, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKirby 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
English
Stackoverflow
31reputation
599reached
1answer
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Github Skills (53)
bots10
microsoft-cognitive-services10
sdk10
bot-framework10
nodejs10
wai-aria9
azure-cognitive-services9
javascript9
cognitive-services9
css-in-js9
speech9
react9
documentation9
uikit9
js9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
KirbyMcKenzie/BuddyBot
Apr 2018 - Jan 2022
🤖 NLP chatbot with swappable personalities built with the Microsoft Bot Framework.
Contributions:1 review, 43 commits, 45 PRs in 3 years 9 months
nlppersonality-chatbotbotscsharp
KirbyMcKenzie/TwitterBotNewZealandTime
Apr 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 8 days
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