Mark Brzozowski

Software QA Analyst & Full-Stack Developer

Contact

Email: mark.brzozowski@gmail.com

Phone: +1 514-827-9982

Location: Montreal, QC

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Key Skills
TypeScript React Node.js PostgreSQL C# / Java Unreal Engine Playwright Azure/AWS/GCP CI/CD Pipelines Docker
Education

Dawson College

DEC in Computer Science | 2005

Languages

English & French (Bilingual) / Polish

Engineering Projects

Pin The Place | Lead Full-Stack Developer

August 2025 – Present

  • Architected a cloud-native, API-driven SaaS using TypeScript, React, and Node.js.
  • Designed and optimized PostgreSQL data models for production workloads.
  • Implemented OAuth 2.0 / JWT and followed security best practices (XSS/SQLi prevention).
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Rocktillery | Systems Developer

Nov 2024 – May 2025

  • Engineered event-driven systems in Unreal Engine using Blueprints and C++.
  • Managed state machines and AI Behavior Trees for autonomous agent logic.
  • Optimized performance through EventTick reduction and CPU profiling.
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Philosophy & Growth

"Following 18 years of technical delivery, I took a deliberate sabbatical in late 2024 to travel internationally and complete a 10-day silent meditation retreat. This period of discipline and perspective-shifting fueled my current transition into Full-Stack Engineering, allowing me to return to the keyboard with a sharpened focus on building scalable, user-centric software."

Professional History

Microsoft

2023 - 2024

Quality Assurance Analyst / Interim Developer

  • Architected a ground-up test framework using Playwright, Cucumber, and REST API.
  • Served as Interim Developer, delivering production code in C# and Java.
  • Led Agile processes as Scrum Master, improving defect detection rates by 30%.

Nuance Communications

2006 - 2023

Senior QA Software Analyst

  • Automated CI/CD pipelines for WebAPI Messenger (Facebook & Alexa bots).
  • Tested mobile speech recognition APIs on Android (Java) and iOS (Swift) hardware.
  • Executed large-scale performance stress tests using JMeter and Locust.
Volunteering

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Montreal

Youth Mentor | 2019 – Present