Rory Mackenzie
Director Of Software Engineering at Elastic
Fenwick, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRory Mackenzie is a seasoned software engineering director with a decade-plus track record of leading large, distributed teams to build dependable, customer-focused products. Currently leading Elasticsearch Datastore at Elastic, he drives architecture evolution for cloud-native scale, spanning concurrency, replication, security, data management and developer productivity. He brings hands-on technical roots in C# and Java together with strong delivery discipline—advocating high code quality, automation and CI/CD to boost efficiency. Rory has managed and mentored teams of up to ~70 engineers across Scotland and the US, prioritizing developer growth and delegation to maximize productivity. His background includes leading mission-critical analytics and investigation platforms at SAS, where long-term strategy and stakeholder collaboration were central. He pairs an MEng with practical experience shipping complex, distributed systems and a knack for thinking from the end-user perspective to shape better products.
5 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Wallace High SchoolMEng with Distinction, Computer Science, MEng with Distinction, Computer Science at University of Strathclyde
Github Skills (9)
restful10
elasticsearch10
search-engine10
opensearch10
java10
visualizations9
elastic8
kibana8
observability7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (3)
elastic/elasticsearch
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
Free and Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
Contributions:5 reviews, 17 comments, 7 issues in 1 year 9 months
restfulsearch-engineopensearchelasticsearchjava
elastic/docs
Dec 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:1 review in 1 day
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