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Marquise Pullen

Senior Software Engineer · Product Owner / Tech Lead · Adjunct Faculty

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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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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)

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).Read on Applied Optics
Pullen, M. N., & Fontecchio, A. K. “Bio-inspired visual sensing enhances imaging techniques using integrated electro-optical switchable filters.” SPIE Vol. 10895 (2019).Read on SPIE

Honors & Awards

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