Michael Brook
Chief Product Officer at Forbes Technology Council
Des Moines, Iowa, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Brook is a product-focused technology executive and founder with 11 years of experience building and scaling data-driven SaaS products from idea to market, currently serving as Chief Product Officer at Pitchly. He blends hands-on engineering chops—evidenced by contributions to PptxGenJS improving precision in PowerPoint generation—with strategic vision formed as Pitchly’s former CTO and co-founder. Michael has a track record of shipping complex backend systems, developer tooling, and user-facing features across startups he founded (BluePlaylist, Songtwist) and consultancies, often turning prototypes into revenue-positive products in months. Based in Des Moines and active in the Forbes Technology Council, he pairs pragmatic system design with product empathy to create tools customers love. An unusual strength is his combination of legal-studies training and deep technical experience, which helps him navigate product risk, compliance, and go-to-market tradeoffs.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (5)
powerpoint10
javascript10
ppx10
text-formatting9
formatting9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
gitbrent/PptxGenJS
Sep 2020 - Sep 2020
Create PowerPoint presentations with a powerful, concise JavaScript API.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 6 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on improving the accuracy and functionality of the presentation generation library. They addressed rounding errors in various calculations, impacting line spacing, font sizes, and chart elements. The user also fixed a bug related to word-level formatting inheritance, ensuring correct styling application. These changes demonstrate a focus on code quality and the precise generation of PowerPoint elements.
html-to-powerpointpowerpoint-presentationspowerpointtypescript-powerpointpowerpoint-library
michaelcbrook/simpleUpload.js
Mar 2015 - Apr 2018
Contributions:8 commits, 5 pushes, 5 comments in 3 years 2 months
file-uploadupload-pluginjquerysimple-yet-powerfuljavascript
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