Michael Brooks
Co-founder And Designer at MBLA
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Brooks is a seasoned product and design leader with 17 years of experience building consumer and fintech products, currently co-founding Sunflower and leading design at MBLA while also advising as a Design Partner at Form Capital. He has repeatedly scaled early-stage teams into full product organizations—most notably as CPO and Head of Design at Peak Money and Spire—shiping web and mobile platforms from concept to market. A mentor-turned-builder, Michael has taught and placed dozens of designers through Designlab and brings a rare blend of hands-on visual craft, product strategy, and fundraising experience from his LifeKraze days. Based in Nashville, he balances startup grit with agency polish (Ogilvy, BBH) and is actively building at mbla-xyz, signaling a pragmatic focus on modern product ecosystems and design-led growth.
17 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Graphic Communications, Graphic Communications at Clemson UniversityChancellor High School
Github Skills (22)
elastic8
redis7
csharp7
xna7
monogame7
dotnet7
elasticsearch6
game-development6
3d6
openal5
linux5
windows5
cross-platform5
game-engine5
open-source4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
leeadkins/elasticsearch-redis-river
Sep 2011 - Jun 2014
A Redis River for Elastic Search.
Contributions:17 commits in 2 years 8 months
redisriverelasticelasticsearchelastic-search
leeadkins/tribuo-legacy
Oct 2008 - Nov 2010
Contributions:63 commits in 2 years 1 month
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