Mckay Harris
Staff Software Engineer at Braze
Sarasota, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolMckay Harris is a Senior Lead Software Engineer with a decade of experience solving large-scale data challenges and building resilient, streaming-first platforms. Currently at Braze, he progressed rapidly from Senior Software Engineer to Senior Lead, bringing deep expertise in Scala, Kafka, Spark, and containerized deployments on Kubernetes. His background includes architecting high-throughput data pipelines at Adobe and Pluralsight that process billions of events daily and reduce cross-team data divergence. Equally comfortable in data engineering and platform roles, he has a track record of turning messy, enterprise integrations into automated, production-grade workflows using tools like Snowflake, Redshift, and Python. Based in Sarasota, Florida, he pairs hands-on coding with mentoring and a practical focus on observability and operational scalability—skills honed across both startup and large-enterprise environments.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Management Information Systems, General, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Management Information Systems, General at Utah State UniversityMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
English, Portuguese, Spanish
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Github Skills (51)
streaming10
data-stream10
braze10
jira10
kafka10
akka10
data-replication10
json-schema9
data-model9
scala9
appboy9
schematron9
adobe-experience-manager9
aem9
data-models9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
flybonzai/dot-scripts
Jan 2019 - Jun 2022
Shell and Vim configurations
Contributions:4 PRs, 13 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 5 months
shellvim
mcguffin0725/portfolio
Jan 2016 - Jul 2018
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 2 years 6 months
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