Derek Brooks
Principal Engineer at Broox Productions
Des Moines, Iowa, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Brooks is a Principal Engineer with 13 years of experience building scalable web and commerce systems for startups, Fortune 100s, and high-stakes campaigns—most notably as lead engineer on President Obama’s 2012 voter contact and protection tech team. He blends hands-on full‑stack development and architecture with product-minded leadership, shipping readable, maintainable code across APIs, mobile, and web platforms. Derek has driven commerce initiatives at Venmo and PayPal, helped grow and integrate teams through Modest’s acquisition, and now consults through his own Broox Productions while leading engineering at Rocket. Based in Des Moines, he pairs practical engineering (he still enjoys building things with his hands) with a taste for photography and travel, and is known for quickly turning ambiguous problems into reliable, scalable solutions.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at Cornell College
Github Skills (161)
postgresql10
python10
jsonb10
radiant10
automation10
home-assistant10
google-home10
javascript10
sublime-text10
mqtt10
sql10
computer-vision10
roboflow10
home-automation10
json10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
broox/home-assistant-config
Sep 2017 - Nov 2022
My personal Home Assistant setup
Contributions:78 commits, 37 PRs, 138 pushes in 5 years 3 months
setup-assistantassistantgoogle-homehome-automationhome-assistant
broox/python-nuheat
Nov 2017 - Jan 2023
A Python library that allows control of connected NuHeat Signature radiant floor thermostats
Contributions:7 releases, 21 reviews, 56 commits in 5 years 3 months
python-libraryradiantpythonsignaturehome-automation
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