Summary
Mark Brooks is a Senior Software Engineer with 13+ years of experience building and scaling database-driven systems and product-focused software in enterprise and research settings. He combines deep Oracle and Unix/Linux expertise with product management and UX sensibilities to turn customer problems into reliable, high-performance solutions across SaaS, disaster recovery, and data warehousing domains. Comfortable communicating with engineers and executives alike, he has led large Oracle deployments, automated monitoring at scale, and guided teams through upgrades and performance tuning. Known for calm execution under pressure, he thrives on mentoring staff, documenting best practices, and driving projects from conception to production. Based in New York and currently at Columbia University, he pairs a long history of hands-on DB administration with a taste for emerging tech and practical product outcomes. He also enjoys baseball and informal technical conversations that spark new ideas.
13 years of coding experience
Rutgers University