Brook Shelley
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrook Shelley is a Senior Manager and seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of experience building developer-facing infrastructure and community programs across companies like Webflow and Slack. They combine hands-on technical depth—leading hosting, core libraries, and runtime teams—with a talent for translating complex systems into clear guidance for developers and designers. Brook has a long track record in developer relations and community growth, having started programs at Turbine Labs and grown engagement at DigitalOcean while also contributing content like brookshelley.github.io. Active in civic leadership as a long-serving board member of Basic Rights Oregon, they bring product empathy and user-centered feedback loops to technical decision-making. Based in Oakland, they pair an English degree with deep operational experience from support to senior engineering management, which surfaces in clear documentation and strong cross-functional collaboration. Notably, Brook writes frequently and blends technical storytelling with practical tooling to make infrastructures and APIs more approachable.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
English Language and Literature General, English Language and Literature General at The University of Texas at Austin
Japanese
Github Skills (28)
atom-plugin8
kanji8
javascript7
windows7
linux7
macos6
proxy6
presenter6
text-editor6
electron6
editor6
slideshow5
ios4
mermaid4
markdown4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
brookshelley/brookshelley.github.com
May 2016 - Dec 2020
my blog
Contributions:5 PRs, 2821 pushes, 14 branches in 4 years 8 months
my-blog
brookshelley/brookshelley
Jan 2020 - Apr 2025
Contributions:8 PRs, 1258 pushes, 9 branches in 5 years 3 months
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