About the speaker
Experience behind the talk
Mark Mackenzie is the Lead Software Engineer for an enterprise encryption gateway at OpenText (formerly Zix), serving financial, healthcare, and government customers. He recently drove a 225% throughput improvement by rewriting critical paths in Rust and C++17, and leads modernization across deployment, observability, and cryptographic agility. Mark writes production code in Java, C++, Go and Rust, and has spent nearly three decades building secure distributed systems at Nortel, Avaya, and Zix.