Brooks Patton
Fractional Director Of Engineering at Brooks Builds LLC
California, United States
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Top SchoolBrooks Patton is a Fractional Director of Engineering and seasoned full-stack developer with 11 years of experience helping teams become high-performing and shipping reliable cloud-native web services. Based in California, he pairs hands-on technical work—AWS architecture, IaC, Rust development and full-stack systems—with practical leadership that focuses on measurable results for existing teams. He founded Brooks Builds to provide fractional engineering leadership, run live-streamed coding courses, and deliver cohort-based Rust training that blends teaching experience from Galvanize with modern async web stacks like Axum and Yew. Brooks excels at integrating AI into engineering workflows and training staff to choose the right AI tools at the right time, improving efficiency without ballooning headcount. Colleagues describe him as a “leader from behind,” who quietly removes blockers, builds culture, and scales developer impact through automation and in-production safeguards.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Anthropology and Computer Information Technology, BS, Anthropology and Computer Information Technology at University of Oregon
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Github Skills (102)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
BrooksPatton/blog
Sep 2015 - Mar 2022
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 6 years 7 months
brooks-builds/twitchchatbot
Feb 2020 - Feb 2023
A Twitch chatbot created live on stream at https://www.twitch.tv/brookzerker
Contributions:24 commits, 2 PRs, 32 pushes in 2 years 11 months
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