Mackenzie Bligh
Senior Engineering Manager at Turo
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMackenzie Bligh is a Senior Engineering Manager based in San Francisco with nine years of experience leading backend and product engineering teams at Turo. He combines hands-on architectural work—driving major refactors that cut database sizes and API costs—with people leadership, scaling teams from dozens to hundreds and mentoring engineers and managers. His recent work delivered an 82% reliability improvement for a scheduled messages system and a zero-trust authorization framework to enable scalable microservices. He has a strong track record of shipping cross-platform projects with zero bugs, launching connected car services that now account for a significant portion of trips, and reducing operational incidents through targeted re-architecture. Equally comfortable in code and strategy, Mackenzie blends data-driven performance tuning with pragmatic product delivery. Formerly a backend engineer focused on event-driven systems and CI/CD, he brings deep systems intuition and practical experience with high-throughput, geospatial, and caching solutions.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Specialization in Computer Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Specialization in Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Alberta
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (78)
vim10
melpa10
emacs-lsp10
emacs10
gnu10
javascript9
emacs-lisp9
spacemacs9
maven9
kotlin9
formatting9
api8
on-the-fly8
outlining8
react8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mack1070101/fotingo-emacs
Dec 2019 - Dec 2020
An emacs wrapper for fotingo
Contributions:29 commits, 11 PRs, 19 pushes in 11 months
elispemacsemacs-lspmelpaemacs-lisp
mack1070101/dotfiles
Oct 2016 - Jan 2023
Contributions:685 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 4 months
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