Marc Brooks

Geospatial drone data platform (Series A). Managed up to 10 direct reports across two product teams (Customer and Pilot) spanning front-end, back-end, infrastructure, geospatial processing, and mobile; served concurrently as Scrum Master for both teams.

• ·Co-designed and launched the company's first performance review process and career leveling framework
• ·Drove DevOps culture and practice: improved code coverage from ~25% to 65% via SonarQube quality gates, established CI/CD working group, improved pipeline reliability across 7+ repos
• ·Reduced production support incident time-to-resolution by 38% through structured on-call rotation and incident management maturation
• ·Hired 5 senior engineers to address critical capacity gaps; managed a performance improvement process
• ·Maintained sprint velocity through simultaneous new hires, unplanned departures, and ambitious timelines
• ·Built Business Intelligence from scratch with 100+ queries/dashboards; gave Sales, Ops, Product and Finance first visibility of delivery status, product availability, network capacity and pilot behavior
• ·Championed team-wide adoption of AI-assisted development tooling (Claude, Cursor); developed usage policies and best practices for consistent, responsible deployment
• ·Delivered key OKRs: security audit (zero vulnerabilities), Salesforce integration, orthomosaic tileserver, and Standard Imagery API

Nature-based climate solutions startup. Contracted by C-suite to drive faster and more predictable delivery across the engineering org.

• ·Guided product and engineering teams toward predictable delivery in an agile framework
• ·Established and codified organizational and technical best practices; managed resource gaps, allocation optimization, and hiring
• ·Provided evidence-based recommendations to C-level leadership for further improvements
• ·Fulfilled product owner responsibilities for the entire platform, then selected and onboarded a full-time replacement

Canadian edtech platform for online course creation (Series C). Led multidisciplinary, remote teams of up to 10 contributors on high-visibility initiatives with projected annual returns over $10M.

• ·Managed Flutter mobile development team (5 FT, 5 contract engineers)
• ·Planned, scoped, and launched Communities, a new pilot product bringing a new revenue stream to market; led 8 SDEs in React and Ruby
• ·Led Course Builder React migration with a team of 5 SDEs, making the core product more secure, supportable, and scalable
• ·Executed transition to Scrum methodology; established quarterly/annual OKRs with cross-functional peers
• ·Provided coaching and mentorship for managers, and individual contributors at all levels

• ·Supervised teams of up to 10 multidisciplinary FTEs, responsible for security, reliability, performance, and regulatory compliance of 100M+ MAU applications for e-commerce, streaming, subscriptions, data analysis, marketing and outreach
• ·Shepherded 350+ web properties through the entire SDLC, from concept to scale and long-term support, for MLB, its teams and its partners, including associated leagues and teams, national sports leagues (NHL, WWE, PGA), media networks (HBO, SportsNet), athletes, celebrities, and more
• ·Hired and managed engineering, product, design, and testing teams; provided technical guidance to SDEs, SDETs, and PMs at all experience levels
• ·Facilitated creation and iteration of OKRs and management frameworks across departments, resulting in increased velocity, predictability, and consistently exceeded KPI targets
• ·Navigated MLBAM's partial acquisition by Disney, coordinating a team split between organizations while maintaining delivery continuity, and subsequent VP-level management reorganization

• ·Led department normalization on Scrum, optimized development and deployment workflows, actively contributed to codebases, and responded to major incidents on-call
• ·Identified and escalated a state actor attack during the MLB All-Star Game by independently diagnosing anomalous traffic via GCP logs and coordinating directly with Google Cloud partners while maintaining service availability
• ·Built geospatial data visualizations, including one supporting MLB's Congressionallobbying efforts

• ·Developed interfaces for marketing, e-commerce, and streaming; created properties with 1M+ MAU; supported 50x traffic scaling events

• ·Responsible for all digital marketing and e-commerce for the Houston Astros

Managed digital presence of the Rachael Ray show, overseeing 5 vendor teams of up to 4 engineers and designers each.

• ·Selected hosting, development and design vendors; negotiated contract terms and SOWs
• ·Led migration scaling the active community from 5 to 10 figures while reducing annual operating costs 25%
• ·Designed and led development on primary site, 70+ microsites, daily direct-marketing campaigns, and a novel segment production CRM tool; modernized security, analytics, virtualization, and version control
• ·Webby Awards Official Honoree in three categories including Best Practices, recognized for visual design, interactivity, functionality and user experience