Neil Mackenzie
Principal Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolNeil Mackenzie is a Principal Cloud Solution Architect with over 11 years focused on guiding strategic Silicon Valley customers to design, deploy, and migrate solutions on Microsoft Azure. Based in San Francisco, he serves as a trusted technical advisor at Microsoft, translating business needs into reliable cloud architectures and ensuring customer success across the intelligent cloud. His background spans hands-on startup CTO experience—founding a clinical information system—and long-term enterprise consulting, giving him rare depth in both product delivery and large-scale cloud transformations. He holds a Ph.D. in Computational Physics from Imperial College London, reflecting a rigorous analytical foundation that informs his approach to complex technical problems. Known for bridging technical detail and business outcomes, he often helps teams navigate trade-offs between innovation, security, and operational maturity.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. Physics, B.Sc. Physics at The University of EdinburghPh.D. Computational Physics, Ph.D. Computational Physics at Imperial College London
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azure-storage
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azure
top-1%
Github Skills (38)
bicep10
microsoft10
microsoft-azure10
arm-templates10
arm10
azure10
azure-sphere10
sphere10
azure-storage9
powershell9
flags8
hardware8
azure-app-configuration8
iot7
serverless6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
nmackenzie/azure-docs
Aug 2018 - Sep 2021
Contributions:1 PR, 6 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 2 months
nmackenzie/nmackenzie.github.io
Nov 2020 - Nov 2022
Contributions:38 pushes in 2 years
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