Brooks Becton

Education

B.S. in Computer Science - University of Tennessee at Martin

Skills

Frontend

  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • CSS
  • Accessibility
  • React
  • React Native
  • Playwright
  • Vitest
  • Storybook
  • Next.js
  • Dynatrace Monitoring

Backend

  • AWS DynamoDB
  • AWS AppSync
  • AWS Cloudwatch
  • Docker
  • Workato

Experience

Caesars Entertainment

Lead Engineer

Jan 2026 - Present
  • Partner with Product and Delivery teams to translate quarterly business goals into clear, actionable technical initiatives and developer workstreams.
  • Provide technical leadership to developers, supporting code quality, architectural consistency, and maintainability.

Senior Web Developer

Oct 2024 - Jan 2026
  • Support and enhance the product API architecture, utilizing Akeneo to house product data, Workato for data integration, AWS DynamoDB for data storage, and AppSync for efficient data serving.
  • Collaborate with a team of developers in a monorepo managed through Nx to build dynamic and responsive marketing pages for Caesars Entertainment, using React, React Native, and Next.js to ensure seamless user experiences across platforms.
  • Maintain and update the internal communications website, leveraging Builder.io and Next.js to ensure smooth functionality, modern design, and alignment with organizational needs.

Bounteous

Lead Developer

Jan 2024 - Oct 2024
  • Developed React Native app to replace client's multiple native apps while ensuring feature parity and helped client's developers get up to speed with React Native development and best practices.
  • Lead a team of global developers to migrate client's internal communications website for its ~50,000 employees from a legacy CMS to a visual site builder. Collaborated with clients to understand requirements and lead trainings to help stakeholders author content.
  • Maintained React SPA for client's eCommerce platform to support user purchasing flow from showing merchandise to checkout.
  • Grew the web technology practice through mentoring React devs, reviewing in house learning materials, and giving talks to developers about new technologies.

Senior Developer

Aug 2022 - Jan 2024

Software Developer

Oct 2021 - Aug 2022

Babel Street

Software Engineer III

Oct 2019 - Oct 2021
  • Created Babel Street's first mobile app using React Native, TypeScript, and Redux.
  • Maintained the main product's front end code base using JavaScript, Gulp, and C#.

Software Engineer II

Jul 2018 - Oct 2019

MS State Libraries

Web Developer

Oct 2019 - Oct 2021
  • Maintained the library's student time clock to log time and generate reports for supervisors for budgetting using React, Redux, and Express.