Marc Brooks
Modern Software Engineer at Turnberry Solutions
Greater St. Louis United States
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Top SchoolMarc Brooks is a modern software engineer and seasoned technical leader with 19+ years building full-stack, cloud-native systems for Fortune 500 clients and startups. He combines deep Microsoft .NET expertise (from 1.0 to current .NET Core/runtime contributions) with fluency across Java, Go, Scala, Python, TypeScript and front-end frameworks, shipping APIs, mobile and offline-first apps. Marc designs resilient data platforms—SQL, NoSQL, multi-terabyte OLTP/OLAP—and builds CI/CD and orchestration pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes and Terraform. He’s led agile teams of 3–20 as an engineering lead and director, embedding code review, testing and human-centered design into delivery. An active open-source contributor, his patches span high-profile projects like dotnet/runtime and Jellyfin, improving runtime robustness and media metadata stability. Notably, he pairs low-level performance and multithreaded expertise with product-focused pragmatism, often building reusable frameworks for secure, auditable LLM and agent integrations.
20 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at United States Naval AcademyComputer Science and Electronics Engineering, Computer Science and Electronics Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis
german (some)
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (26)
html5-canvas10
conversions10
javascript10
net10
dotnet-new10
dotnet10
jellyfin10
asp-net10
dom-manipulation10
image-generation10
dom10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
websocket9
png9
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
IDisposable/dom-to-image-more
Feb 2019 - Jan 2023
Generates an image from a DOM node using HTML5 canvas
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:36 releases, 110 reviews, 106 commits in 4 years
Contributions summary:Marc primarily contributed to improving the functionality of a DOM-to-image library. Their work involved fixing font rendering issues, specifically font mangling, and improving the reliability of font detection. They addressed absolute positioning rendering errors and resolved several other bugs related to image generation. Additionally, the user was involved in code cleanup, release preparation, and build process improvements.
domdom-nodehtml5-canvasimagepng
dotnet/runtime
Jan 2020 - Sep 2025
.NET is a cross-platform runtime for cloud, mobile, desktop, and IoT apps.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:219 reviews, 41 PRs, 400 comments in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Marc primarily contributed to improving the .NET runtime, focusing on code quality and functionality. Their work involved correcting documentation comments for operators, which improved the clarity of the code. They also refactored code related to regular expressions, optimizing its performance by coalescing constants. Furthermore, they added and tested new close statuses for WebSocket, which increased the robustness of the networking library.
dotnetiotmobile
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