William Mackay
Manager, System Development at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Mackay is an engineering manager and technical programs leader with a decade of experience delivering large-scale software and service operations across Amazon, Google Cloud, and Moderna. He excels in agile environments that face high uncertainty, empowering teams to solve complex problems through iterative improvements and strong program discipline (PMP, former CSM). With a BS in Computer Engineering and an MBA, he combines deep technical grounding with business and operational fluency, having led system development for Amazon’s Project Kuiper and multiple AWS organizations. Known for navigating cross-functional complexity, he brings a track record of translating ambiguous technical challenges into measurable delivery outcomes and resilient systems. An operator who actively blends hands-on systems thinking with executive-facing program leadership, he’s comfortable switching between coding-level trade-offs and strategic roadmap decisions.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Business, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Business at Webster UniversityBachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering at University of Arkansas
English
Github Skills (16)
google-cloud7
terraform5
multi-az5
trellis5
google-cloud-platform5
staging5
wordpress5
terraform-provider4
rds4
cloud-platform4
pjax3
forum2
bootstrap2
laravel2
php2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
whmackay/AWS-CloudFormation-Wordpress-Multi-AZ
Oct 2016 - Jan 2019
Multi-AZ Wordpress w/ RDS Snapshot Restore or Barebone CloudFormation Template
Contributions:2 PRs, 80 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years 3 months
rdspjaxwordpressmulti-azbarebone
whmackay/AWS-CloudFormation-EKS
Dec 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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