Rhys Mckenzie
Head Of Development at Digital8
Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolRhys Mckenzie is a Head of Development and former Scrum Master with eight years’ experience leading mobile and backend engineering teams across Australian startups. He combines hands-on native Android (and iOS) development with automation testing and backend familiarity, championing test-focused, reusable code and robust CI practices. As an Agile coach he prioritises continuous improvement and a collaborative team culture, scaling processes while keeping delivery quality high. Rhys has progressed from automation developer to head of Android and then Head of Development, showing both technical depth and people leadership. Based in Queensland, he holds a Bachelor of Information Technology (Software Design) from The University of Queensland and consistently seeks new tools and practices to raise engineering standards. An often-overlooked strength is his blend of product-minded development and infrastructure awareness, enabling smoother handoffs between mobile teams and backend operations.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology Software Design, Bachelor of Information Technology Software Design at The University of Queensland
Github Skills (11)
discord-bot8
music7
discord7
statistics6
mongodb6
apex6
espn6
python5
django5
gitlab4
android2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
AngryBork/apex-sigma-plugins
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
sigmaapex-sigmasubmoduleapex
AngryBork/apex-sigma-core
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
discordbotdiscord-botdatabase-giantdatabase
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