# David Brooks

> Software Engineer at Airbnb

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/davidbrooks

I am a full-stack Engineer who has a product-first mindset. I am a skilled creative problem solver. With a background in fine art and design. I come with a strong foundation in the M.E.R.N. tech stack. I am well versed in the industry standard practices of utilized agile management systems and service-oriented architectures. I have dev op experience deploying, optimizing and scaling applications with Docker to AWS.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Airbnb
Jan 2020 – Jan 2025

### Software Engineer Apprentice @ Airbnb
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020

### Dog walker @ Self Employed
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020

### Software Engineer @ Personal Projects
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Horizontally scaled a deployed microservice to handle 1500 requests per second using 5 servers and an 
   NGINX load balancer
• Lowered client response times to under 1 millisecond by using Redis to cache data for popular restaurants
• Benchmarked Cassandra and PostgreSQL to determine optimal database based on performance under load

### Software Engineer @ Personal Projects
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Deployed a full-stack app utilizing Javascript in Amazon Web Services (EC2)  instance environment 
   leveraged with Docker
• Made interactive React front-end microservice rendering house rental listing data to users styled with CSS 
   Modules 
• Architected a custom Express reverse proxy server that routes to microservices which serve up compressed 
   static assets  
• Implemented Brotli & Gzip compression optimization dynamic to reach 100%  pages speed mobile

### Software Engineer @ Personal Projects
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
•Constructed a Restful API in tandem with a  relational database 
•Utilized SMS API to enable a user to send text messages to cell phones

### Studio Manager @ Mission Graphic
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco
Went from intern to manager at a historic printing studio
Mentioned in a published book for facilitating the creation of its cover “The Angry Therapist”
Taught printmaking to artists in San Francisco
Wrote & directed a studio show reel

### Art Support Worker @ IHC New Zealand
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand
Art Support Worker for the intellectually disabled


## Education
### Advanced Software Engineering Immersive Program
Hack Reactor
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/david-brooks-creative-logistics

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Source: https://flows.cv/davidbrooks
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/davidbrooks/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-22