Michael Baker

Senior Software Engineer

  • Full Stack Engineer
  • UI Engineer
  • Lead Engineer - Manager
  1. Startup experience. Entrepreneur and self-starter since age six.
    • Contracted for funded startups (e.g. Karuna Labs, Bluescape, Disconnect)
    • Long steeped in startup culture and Silicon Valley tech industry
  2. FAANG experience. Senior Software Engineer, UI Engineer, Information Architect, security-minded, built-to-scale, build fast and make it last Full-Stack Engineer.
    • Senior Software Engineer at Apple
    • UI Engineer at Cisco
  3. Understands network-effects and word-of-mouth marketing. Background experience as a lead developer at branding and public relations agencies.
    • Created a post that organically went to the front page of Reddit
    • Created another post that went to #2 on Hacker News

Top Skills

  • Software Engineering
  • Information Architecture
  • Real-time Data Visualizations
  • 3D Physics Simulations
  • Product Development

Tech Stacks

  • JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS, HTML5, SVG animations, device adaptive, progressive enhancement
  • Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP
  • Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana
  • Payments APIs
  • JavaScript Data Visualization libraries

More Skills

  • testing
  • logging
  • debugging
  • building ⊇ { apps, web interfaces, accessible info, companies, revenue, reputation }
  • connecting ⊇ { databases, servers, interfaces, networks, new clients, data points, experts }
  • workflows
  • accessibility
  • wireframes
  • launching
  • online sales
  • conversions ⊇ { reader to customer, hi-fi design to production-ready code, upsales }
  • more
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  • finance
  • events
  • meetups
  • bitcoin
  • prototyping
  • legal
  • updates
  • troubleshooting
  • customer relationship management
  • marketing
  • email messaging
  • optimism

Resume

Software Engineer, Perpetual Technical Founder

Stealth Startup(s) Dana Point, CA and Remote A Couple Years, March 2024 – Present

Fundraiser, Producer

San Francisco Interdependence Group, LLC San Francisco, CA and Remote Four+ years, January 2021 – Present
  • Captained a team of co-buyers in purchasing a million dollar San Francisco property, navigating a complex auction deal, an epic journey of 1.5-year legal battle and victory; special thanks to Hung
  • Creating a dream work-from-home rental San Francisco Victorian artistic hacker house; special thanks to Ernie

Software Engineer

Radical Gnomes San Francisco, CA and Remote Two years, April 2021 – August 2023

Co-Founder, People Operations

Armoní Senior Software Engineer Talent San Francisco, CA and Remote Six months, March 2023 – August 2023
  • Building an exquisite, legit engineer talent agency and organizing a job-placement mastermind for California’s tech industry; special thanks to Stephanie
  • Creating reliable channels for companies to hire top-producing contractors to output results alongside their seasoned employees; keywords: Bitcoin, security, payments, dashboards

Co-Founder, People Operations

JetPack Devs, LLC San Francisco, CA and Remote One year, September 2021 – October 2022

Senior Software Engineer, Individual Contributor 4

Apple, Inc. Sunnyvale, CA and Remote November 2017 – October 2020

Lead Full-Stack Engineer

Revolution Coding Team, Inc. Mountain View, CA August 2010 – October 2017

Founded an engineering consulting group, hired and managed the five core full-time team members, grew the company to 13 team members to service big brands like Chase Bank and The Mirage Hotel, as well as startups such as Crowdly, Disconnect and Bluescape.

  • Designed wireframes for internal enterprise pricing apps for Walmart Labs with Adobe Illustrator; special thanks to Dean and Doug
  • Engineered an interactive personalized Valentine's Day Card app for a massive multiplayer online role-playing game, City of Heroes, using PHP, jQuery and ImageMagick; special thanks to Josh
  • Developed a custom web-scraping and extended-search data analysis app, called SpyderFix, run by marketing agencies to assess the digital presence of client companies and their clients’ competitors, using PHP for the scraping and keyword analysis with a from-scratch dashboard on the front-end; special thanks to Steven

UI Engineer

Cisco Systems, Inc. San Francisco, CA and Remote June 2014 – October 2014

Engineered the user interface for a real-time security alerts dashboard and ticketing system, called OpenSOC, built to help organizations with anomaly detection and incident forensics.

  • Developed a Packet Capture (PCAP) module to analyze captured network traffic data viewed in a familiar hexadecimal format that highlights grouped hexadecimal characters with the labeled decoded data, including the source and destination IP addresses; special thanks to Ram
  • Created the home dashboard: network security graphs, maps plotting the geolocation sources of potential security attacks, tables of itemized security threats and ability to drill down to see the threat’s details; special thanks to Jamil
  • Presented milestone completion demos to Cisco executives

Lead Front-End Engineer, Team Lead, Engineer Manager

AdBlock Mountain View, CA and Remote June 2013 – October 2013

Team Lead of five engineers and a copywriter to redesign and rewrite the AdBlock website to clearly show that the most popular browser extension makes ads vanish from the internet.

  • Produced an animated demo to visually communicate how the plugin blocks ads everywhere—from news sites to YouTube to Facebook.
  • Developed a pay-what-you-want form to choose a donation amount, adjust a sliding scale to determine how much of the donation goes to AdBlock or to internet freedom charities, and select different payment options
  • A/B tested alternate versions of the design and copy-text to optimize donation amounts

UI Engineer, Frontend Team Lead Engineer, Engineer Manager

Disconnect Palo Alto, CA March 2013 – April 2013
  • Lead a team of developers to engineer a new company responsive website based on high fidelity mockups
  • Developed interactive instructional animations with jQuery, JavaScript, CSS3 and HTML5

Information Architect

Big Bad Goose Mountain View, CA March 2012 – May 2012

Co-Founder

Yupik.it Mountain View, CA Aug 2011 – Nov 2011

Web Developer

HEILBrice Irvine, CA and Remote 2010
  • Developed and launched celebrity website for Lauren Conrad with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL and Joomla!
  • Maintained websites—such as LaurenConrad.com, HeilBrice.com, DiscoverLosAngeles.com—using the Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP stack with WordPress, Joomla! and Alfresco CMSs; special thanks to Jade
  • Created animated flash banner ads with minimized file sizes using Photoshop and ActionsScript

Web Developer

Flipside Designs San Clemente, CA and Remote 2009

Web Developer

Young Company Laguna Beach, CA 2009
  • Developed websites with animated flash introductions HTML, CSS and ActionScript
  • Maintained e-commerce store with thousands of products with PHP and MySQL
  • Gave direction or advice on technology matters for all web projects; special thanks to Robyn

Web Developer, Freelance

CleverBaker Costa Mesa, CA 2008 – 2011

Web Developer

White Barn Group San Juan Capistrano, CA 2008
  • Created an interactive donor's wall—for client African Child Foundation—with dynamic content using ActionsScript and XML
  • Developed pixel-perfect website—for client Shea Therapeutic Riding Center—based on Photoshop design using HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP; special thanks to Steve
  • Developed the front-end code for “It Happens at IHOP” contest and contest results pages—for IHOP—based on Photoshop design [the contest winner won free pancakes for life]

Web Developer, Technical Founder

Osun Solutions Orange, CA and Remote 2007 – 2008

Co-founded a profitable media design and marketing agency with a niche in innovative Flash websites.

  • Developed Flash websites with animated intros, embedded video and music using Actionscript, for creative agencies, actors and music bands; special thanks to Michelle
  • Designed the brand-identity for new companies, including their company name, logo, business colors, and business cards

Web Developer, Graphic Designer

Select University Technologies, Inc. Newport Beach, CA 2005 – 2006
  • Designed logos for newly adopted technology products with Photoshop and Illustrator; special thanks to John
  • Created digital print marketing material for investors
  • Engineered, designed and maintained the company website along with the online directory of it's portfolio companies

Server, Barista

Hospitality and Service Industry California

Chess Teacher, Math Tutor

Public Schools, Private Schools, Freelance California

Entrepreneur, Builder

Pursuits California

Education

Scientific Visualization Studies Chapman University 2005 – 2007

3D Modeling Gnomon School of Visual Effects 2004

Computer Science Studies Syracuse University 2001 – 2003

Web Design & Animation University College London 2000 Summer

About

I'm a results-driven, outside-the-box thinker, UI Engineer with a strong focus on data-driven interfaces that are informative, intuitive and nice.

I've created wireframes and screen flows for internal enterprise apps for Walmart Labs, I helped code a security dashboard for security for Cisco and I've developed websites for companies to communicate how their products create value for the individual user. I code and optimize user interactions to free up mental bandwidth for creativity.

I specialize in JavaScript, PHP and Data Visualization.

I studied Computer Science and Scientific Visualization at university and I worked as the in-house developer at advertising/PR agencies in Orange County. My experience in Syracuse, NY, Southern California and Silicon Valley has been fundamental in my role as a creative Engineer.

I like to talk and listen in person.

I like in-person hackathons.

I like to work remotely.

Michael Baker testing out old-timey photography