John Brock
Product Management at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Brock is a technical product leader with 13 years of experience building developer- and admin-facing cloud products, now driving product strategy at AWS from Seattle. He combines deep engineering roots from a decade at Salesforce with product leadership roles at Quip and AWS to translate complex APIs and distributed systems into usable customer solutions. John is hands-on with front-end and streaming features—contributing to the open-source ForceWorkbench project to improve streaming V2, subscription UX, and CometD utilities—bringing empathy for developer workflows to product decisions. He has a strong track record of moving between senior engineering and product roles, enabling pragmatic roadmaps that balance technical debt and customer-facing innovation. Outside work he channels the same problem-solving energy into DIY projects and motorsports, reflecting a practical, performance-oriented mindset.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University
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Github Skills (11)
javascript10
front-end-development10
salesforce10
streaming10
apidoc9
websocket9
api9
php8
css8
html8
apex6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
forceworkbench/forceworkbench
May 2016 - Jul 2017
Web-based suite of tools for administrators and developers to interact with the Force.com APIs
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 17 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:John primarily contributed to the front-end of the application, focusing on streaming functionality and user interface elements. They implemented features related to push topics, generic subscriptions, and replay options, including the addition of UI components and event handling. The user also updated the application to support streaming V2 and made minor UI/UX improvements, such as adjusting spacing and adding buttons. Furthermore, the user made updates to configuration files and extracted some CometD logic to a utility class.
apiweb-basedinteractsalesforceadministrators
john-brock/perm-comparator
Jul 2012 - Jun 2017
Quickly compare effective permissions between users, profiles, and permission sets. Built on Heroku and Force.com using OAuth2, ExtJS4, and Java with the Play! framework.
Contributions:59 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 4 years 11 months
herokueffectiveplay-frameworkpermissionpermissions
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