Derek 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
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Derek Brooks - Principal Engineer at Broox Productions