experience

Marc Brooks

15+ years of progressive leadership in technical management and software development for large-scale consumer-facing products. Focused on building great teams and shipping things people actually use.

experience

Spexi Geospatial

Vancouver, BC

Senior Engineering Manager

Jun 2024 – Present

·Led up to 10 engineers across two product teams spanning front-end, back-end, infrastructure, data processing, mobile, and drone flight control
·Co-designed the company's first engineering performance review process and career leveling framework
·Improved code coverage from ~25% to 65% via SonarQube quality gates
·Reduced production incident time-to-resolution by 38% through structured on-call rotation
·Hired 5 senior engineers addressing critical capacity gaps
·Built 100+ Metabase dashboards giving Sales, Operations, Product and Finance their first delivery visibility

veritree

Vancouver, BC

Technology Management Consultant & Agile Coach

Nov 2023 – Jun 2024

·Guided product and engineering teams toward agile delivery
·Established organizational and technical best practices
·Identified resource gaps and optimized hiring
·Provided evidence-based recommendations to C-level leadership

Thinkific

Vancouver, BC

Engineering Manager

Sep 2021 – Jul 2023

·Led multidisciplinary remote teams of up to 10, driving high-visibility initiatives
·Managed 5 FT + 5 contract engineers on Flutter mobile development
·Scoped and delivered Communities product pilot (React/Ruby) with 8 SDEs
·Led Course Builder React migration with team of 5 SDEs
·Implemented Scrum methodology and collaborated on quarterly/annual OKRs

Major League Baseball

New York, NY

Associate Director, Software Engineering

Apr 2018 – Sep 2021

·Supervised multidisciplinary teams of up to 10 FTEs
·Managed 100M+ MAU applications for e-commerce, streaming, subscriptions, and analytics
·Shepherded 350+ web properties through the entire SDLC, from concept to scale
·Hired and managed teams across engineering, product, design, and testing

Lead Software Engineer

Dec 2015 – Apr 2018

·Led Scrum normalization and workflow optimization across engineering
·Responded to major incidents while on-call for 100M+ MAU platform

Senior Producer, Partner Solutions

Apr 2012 – Dec 2015

·Managed MLB and Houston Astros marketing and ticketing initiatives
·Developed interfaces adding 1M+ MAU
·Improved existing properties supporting 50× traffic scale

CBS Television Distribution

New York, NY

Webmaster

Sep 2007 – Sep 2010

·Directed digital presence for Rachael Ray brand
·Led migration enabling scale from 5 to 10 figures while reducing yearly operating costs by 25%
·Designed primary site, 70+ microsites, and direct-marketing campaigns
·Webby Awards Official Honoree — three categories

skills

LeadershipTalent acquisition & development, coaching, mentoring, Certified Scrum Master, DEIB, vendor management

EngineeringCI/CD, TDD, Agile, accessibility, systems administration, GIS

LanguagesJavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Node.js, React, Java, PHP, SQL, NoSQL, HTML, CSS

PlatformsAWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Git, Jenkins, Atlassian suite, Adobe Creative Suite

education

MS, Technology Management — New York University

2014

BA, Comparative Literature — Binghamton University

2005