Louis Mackenzie-smith
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Prague, Czechia
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Top SchoolLouis Mackenzie-smith is a Senior Software Engineer based in Prague with 8 years of experience building cloud-native, compliance-focused data systems at Microsoft and startups. He specializes in distributed systems, data engineering, and compliance automation, having led teams that cut governance mapping time by 70%, eliminated hundreds of audit hours, and enforced GDPR-safe data residency across low-code platforms. Comfortable across Azure and AWS, he has shipped end-to-end products—from ML-powered Q&A pipelines and OneDrive integrations to high-throughput payment systems—while driving CI/CD and automation to accelerate delivery. Trilingual and former teacher, he brings strong mentorship and cross-cultural communication to technical leadership, pairing pragmatic engineering with a knack for translating regulatory requirements into automated, production-grade controls.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at LMU Munich – Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenBachelor of Arts - BA, Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Philosophy at University of Warwick
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Github Skills (16)
chess-engine9
uci9
java8
html6
javascript6
canvas6
playing5
chess4
graphical-user-interface4
python3
stockfish3
command-line-interface3
user-interface3
openai-gym1
reinforcement-learning1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
louism33/Axolotl
Sep 2018 - Sep 2019
UCI chess engine written in Java. Connect her to Arena, or play on the command line.
Contributions:1 release, 535 commits, 56 PRs in 1 year
ucichess-engineuci-chess-enginearenajava
louism33/sysprakOthello
Dec 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:63 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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