Robert Mackenzie
Software Developer at Sky
Elmbridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Mackenzie is a software developer and Senior SRE with 11 years' experience building and automating large-scale streaming platforms at Sky, where he architects Kubernetes-based live transcoding, CI/CD and monitoring solutions for Sky Go, Now TV and Sky Q. He blends a PhD-level scientific background with hands-on DevOps practice, having moved systems from vendor hardware to VM/Kubernetes, implemented automation with Puppet/Jenkins/Terraform, and developed Django-backed tooling for network and operational automation. Comfortable across backend services, message-driven workers and frontend tooling, he also provides on-call stewardship for DRM, analytics and legacy estates. Known for growing and training teams—from a single operator to a 10-person Streaming DevOps group—he pairs deep technical troubleshooting with clear documentation and mentorship. An unexpected detail: his academic work in molecular simulations and wet-lab experiments informs a methodical, data-driven approach to reliability engineering.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
A levels, 3 As, A levels, 3 As at St George's CollegeBSc, Biochemistry, 2:1, BSc, Biochemistry, 2:1 at University of Bristol
English, French
Github Skills (6)
dns-cache4
shell3
linux3
blocking3
malware2
dnsmasq2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
robs898/cowloon
Jan 2015 - Jan 2019
Website for my mixtapes
Contributions:2 PRs, 21 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 1 month
reactmixtapes
robs898/json_db
May 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:16 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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