Marquise PullenInteractive Resume

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Marquise Pullen

Senior Software Engineer · Platform Technical Lead · Adjunct Faculty

Summary

Senior software engineer and platform technical lead with 16+ years of systems engineering and 9+ years teaching computer science at the university level. Ships production full-stack platforms and CI/CD infrastructure by day and teaches the same modern stack — web, cloud, and DevOps — at Rowan University and Rowan College at Burlington County.

Experience

Technical LeadLockheed Martin — CyberQuest Academy · RemoteDec 2025 – Present
  • Provide technical direction and continuity for the CyberQuest Academy platform, leading architectural discussions and design decisions across the engineering team.
  • Shape the 2026 program-year roadmap, aligning platform capabilities with program goals and teacher/mentor feedback.
  • Introduced automated testing to the platform for the first time — establishing unit and end-to-end coverage across a codebase that had none and enforcing it as a CI/CD quality gate.
  • Established automated accessibility testing (static linting, component tests, rendered audits) in CI/CD, raising WCAG 2.1 AA to an enforced quality standard.
Senior Software EngineerLockheed Martin — Display Department · Mount Laurel, NJNov 2022 – Present
  • Maintain and enhance mission-critical Swing-based GUIs within a 3M+ line C++ / 450K+ line Java codebase, delivering fixes and UX improvements tied to incentive-award criteria.
  • Expand JUnit and Robot Framework test suites in GitLab CI/CD, reducing regression risk and improving requirement compliance across 35 product baselines.
  • Coordinate real-time distributed systems using DDS messaging; diagnosed and resolved a post-restart message-loss defect through middleware QoS durability configuration.
  • Serve as back-fill Scrum Master for the Spartan Agile team and provide code-review feedback to uphold quality and Model-Based Engineering standards.
Senior Full-Stack EngineerLockheed Martin — CyberQuest Academy · RemoteNov 2024 – Nov 2025
  • Led delivery and sustainment of production features for a 770+ user education platform using Next.js/React and Tailwind CSS with GitLab CI/CD and Docker.
  • Owned an end-to-end classroom registration capability — UX, service contracts, and GraphQL/PostgreSQL persistence — supporting onboarding of 100+ classrooms.
  • Engineered a multi-stage GitLab CI/CD pipeline (static analysis → test → build → deploy) with templated jobs and quality gates surfaced in the GitLab UI.
  • Deployed on AWS ECS Fargate behind an Application Load Balancer, with automated ephemeral per-MR review environments that provision and tear down their own infrastructure.
Adjunct Professor, Computer ScienceRowan University · Glassboro, NJSep 2018 – Present
  • Teach Web Programming and related undergraduate CS courses centered on production-grade web development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Node.js, REST) via a multi-sprint MERN-stack capstone.
  • Instruct ~46 students per year across multiple sections with an 82% pass rate; designed the Web Programming curriculum from scratch.
  • Built a teaching demonstration project using agentic AI (Ollama, ChromaDB, FastAPI, RAG) to introduce students to practical AI engineering.
Adjunct Professor, Computer ScienceRowan College at Burlington County · Mount Laurel, NJAug 2017 – Present
  • Teach Introduction to Computer Science I & II in C++ — fundamentals, data structures, and object-oriented programming.
  • Designed and launched the college's first Cloud Computing and DevOps course sequence, building curriculum, lab infrastructure, and assessments from the ground up.
  • Structured the curriculum around real production tooling: GitLab CI/CD, Terraform, Ansible, GCP, microservices, and observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki).
Doctoral Teaching & Research FellowDrexel University · Philadelphia, PAJan 2017 – Jun 2023
  • Instructor/TA across 20+ undergraduate course offerings (CS & Programming, Intro to CS I/II, Senior Design I–III, Renewable Energy); supported the first fully-remote engineering course pre-COVID.
  • Helped modernize the ECE senior design program (30+ teams/year), critiquing technical presentations, proposals, and demonstrations to improve project readiness.
  • Conducted graduate research in the Nanophotonics+ Lab on electro-optical switchable filters, publishing two peer-reviewed papers.
Electrical EngineerU.S. Army DEVCOM C5ISR Center (formerly CERDEC) — PNT Division · Lakehurst, NJApr 2009 – Nov 2022
  • Secured $230K in ILIR (In-house Laboratory Independent Research) funding over three years by pitching and leading two in-house R&D projects; presented an Army RDEC research review to the National Academies of Sciences (Nov 2018).
  • Built real-time geospatial overlays fusing INS/IMU and Doppler streams (processed at 60 Hz), converting navigation data to KML for visualization in Google Earth to surface sensor outages during live Blackhawk flight tests.
  • Researched vision-navigation techniques for GPS-denied environments; led multi-year defense projects and oversaw test-platform design for PNT field testing.
Vehicle Integration LeadU.S. Army CERDEC — C4ISR On-The-Move · Fort Dix, NJNov 2006 – Apr 2009
  • Supervised a team of five configuring test vehicles for annual field experiments with soldiers.
  • Integrated, tested, and maintained C4ISR hardware across 30+ ground and air test platforms, including power-budget analysis and battery/inverter upgrades for high-draw payloads.

Technical Skills

Cloud & Infrastructure
AWS (ECS Fargate, ALB, ECR), GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Vagrant
CI/CD & DevOps
GitLab CI/CD, Helm, YAML, Infrastructure-as-Code, automated testing, deployment pipelines
Frontend
React, Next.js, JavaScript/TypeScript (ES6+), HTML5, CSS3, Tailwind CSS
Backend
Node.js, Java (Spring Boot), Python, REST APIs, GraphQL
Databases
PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, RDS
Testing & Quality
Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress, JUnit, Robot Framework
Observability
Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, OpenTelemetry
Accessibility
WCAG 2.1 AA, axe-core / jest-axe, Lighthouse CI
AI/ML
Ollama (LLM integration), ChromaDB, FastAPI, RAG architecture
Real-time / Messaging
DDS (pub/sub across distributed systems), QoS policy tuning

Certifications

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate — Amazon Web Services · Issued Jan 2026
  • DevSecOps Technical Accelerator Program (DSO-TAP) – Practitioner, Cohort 3 — Lockheed Martin · CI/CD · Cloud · Security · DevOps · Agile · Graduated Jan 2026
  • DAWIA Acquisition Professional — Systems Engineering (Levels I, II, III) — U.S. Army
  • Active Secret U.S. Security Clearance — U.S. Department of Defense

Education

Ph.D. Electrical Engineering
Computer Vision & Machine Learning
Drexel University · In progress (~2026–2027)
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Dynamics & Robust Controls
Drexel University · 2009
M.S. Electrical Engineering
Controls & Digital Signal Processing
Drexel University · 2016
B.S. Electrical Engineering
Electronics & Controls
Drexel University · 2006

Publications

Pelleg, B., Steinhauser, C., Pullen, M., Linden, J., & Fontecchio, A. “Electrically switchable electro-optic filters for spectral line emission detection.” Applied Optics 60, 1059–1067 (2021).
Pullen, M. N., & Fontecchio, A. K. “Bio-inspired visual sensing enhances imaging techniques using integrated electro-optical switchable filters.” SPIE Vol. 10895 (2019).

Honors & Awards

ILIR (2020) — Spectral Signature Beacon Navigation, $100K
Milton Shaw Fellowship (2019–2020)
ILIR (2018) — H-PDLC Bio-inspired Vision Navigation, $130K
ExPERTS Fellowship — Experiential Practices in Education Research and Teaching in STEM (2017–2018)