Marquise Pullen
Senior Software Engineer · Product Owner / Tech Lead · Adjunct Faculty
Full résumé — all tracks
Summary
Senior software engineer, product owner, and platform technical lead with 16+ years of systems engineering and 9+ years teaching computer science at the university level. Owns the product roadmap and platform direction for a 770+ user educational cybersecurity platform at Lockheed Martin, and teaches the same modern stack — web, cloud, and DevOps — at Rowan University and Rowan College at Burlington County.
Experience
Product Owner · Technical Lead
Lockheed Martin — CyberQuest Academy · Remote
Jul 2026 – Present
- Selected as Product Owner for the CyberQuest Academy platform while continuing as Technical Lead — accountable for product roadmap, feature prioritization, and cross-functional alignment across engineering, program leadership, and teacher/mentor stakeholders.
- Identified that the team was operating without visibility into challenge performance, then defined and built a challenge-analytics capability — solve/fail counts, success rate, and user-to-challenge engagement — giving the team data-driven insight into content quality for the first time.
Technical Lead
Lockheed Martin — CyberQuest Academy · Remote
Dec 2025 – Jul 2026
- Provided technical direction and continuity for the CyberQuest Academy platform, leading architectural discussions and design decisions across the engineering team.
- Contributed to shaping the 2026 program-year roadmap, aligning platform capabilities with program goals and teacher/mentor feedback.
Senior Software Engineer
Lockheed Martin — Display Department · Mount Laurel, NJ
Nov 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.
Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Lockheed Martin — CyberQuest Academy · Remote
Nov 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.
Adjunct Professor, Computer Science
Rowan University · Glassboro, NJ
Sep 2018 – Present
- Teach Web Programming and Computer Science & Programming (CS 04103) — production-grade web development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Node.js, REST) via a multi-sprint MERN-stack capstone, plus core CS fundamentals.
- Instruct ~46 students per year across multiple sections with an 82% pass rate; designed the Web Programming curriculum from scratch.
Adjunct Professor, Computer Science
Rowan College at Burlington County · Mount Laurel, NJ
Aug 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.
Technical Strengths
- 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
- Product & Roadmap
- Backlog prioritization, feature roadmap ownership, cross-functional stakeholder alignment, product analytics
- Frontend
- React, Next.js, JavaScript/TypeScript (ES6+), HTML5, CSS3, Tailwind CSS
- Backend
- Node.js, Java (Spring Boot), Python, REST APIs, GraphQL
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. Electrical Engineering
Controls & Digital Signal Processing
Drexel University · 2016
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Dynamics & Robust Controls
Drexel University · 2009
B.S. Electrical Engineering
Electronics & Controls
Drexel University · 2006
Highlights
- 16+Years engineering experience
- 9+Years teaching at university & community college
- 770+Users impacted through platform solutions
- $230KResearch funding secured (over three years)