Mackenzie Nichols
Supervisor, Open Data
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMackenzie Nichols is a data engineer and supervisor with a decade of experience helping public and private organizations profile, integrate, standardize, and analyze disparate datasets. Now leading the City of Toronto’s Open Data program, they blend hands-on ETL, API reverse engineering, and data-quality tooling with practical governance to make messy data usable for decision-makers. Past roles at Ataccama and Softchoice show deep experience in MDM, automation, and enterprise integration across cloud and on‑prem systems (AWS, Azure, MSSQL, Oracle). Comfortable translating technical complexity for non-technical stakeholders, Mackenzie also trains teams in best practices and has a track record of shipping reproducible pipelines and Power BI reporting. Their background in environmental science and field data work informs a pragmatic approach to data stewardship and sensitivity around legally or ethically fraught datasets.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
DEC, Liberal Arts, DEC, Liberal Arts at CEGEP - John Abbott CollegeBachelor's degree, Environmental Science/Economics, Bachelor's degree, Environmental Science/Economics at Colby College
French, English
Github Skills (27)
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dbpedia9
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python9
data-management9
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
open-data-toronto/ckanext-datastore-profiler
Jan 2022 - Nov 2022
creates summaries for toronto open data datastore resources
Contributions:25 reviews, 53 commits, 10 PRs in 10 months
open-datasummariestoronto-open-datadatastore
open-data-toronto/operations
Jun 2021 - Dec 2022
Home for all operations related code and solutions for the Open Data Toronto catalogue
Contributions:87 reviews, 576 commits, 234 PRs in 1 year 6 months
catalogueopen-datatoronto-open-data
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