McKenzie Abdon

McKenzie Abdon is an experienced technical professional with a strong background in site reliability engineering and infrastructure management. Currently serving as a Senior Member Of Technical Staff at Ascend.io, McKenzie focuses on building and tuning multiple cloud Kubernetes control planes, enhancing developer productivity tooling, and conducting performance testing of cloud infrastructure while also completing the SOC2 Type 1 report. Previous roles include Senior Site Reliability Engineer at PubNub, where McKenzie wrote infrastructure as code and supported a Programmable Data Stream Network, and Reliability Engineer at Twitter, emphasizing incident management. McKenzie began a career in IT at Government Liquidation as an Information Technology Systems Engineer, and later served as Operations Supervisor at Limelight Networks and Director of IT at Arizona Asthma and Allergy Institute. McKenzie holds a Bachelor's and an Associate's degree in Network Technologies and PC/Networking Technologies from Collins College.