Anthony Baker
Engineering Leader, GemFire at VMware
Sherwood, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolAnthony Baker is an accomplished engineering leader with 11+ years driving low-latency, strongly consistent distributed systems and a 25+ year track record in high-performance software and architecture. As head of GemFire at VMware he scaled global teams, doubled headcount while keeping attrition under 10%, and led the product into Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, Redis compatibility, and JSON/full-text capabilities used in finance, telecom, healthcare, and defense. He combines calm, technically astute decision-making with expertise in OKRs, org design, release delivery, and coaching, and has a proven ability to reduce escaped defects and ship complex refactors — including work in the Apache Geode project that improves maintainability and reduces custom utility churn. Comfortable managing executive-level incidents and navigating legal and community challenges, he’s also a thoughtful recruiter who built a highly rated, inclusive interview experience. Trained in aerospace engineering with graduate work in CFD and massively parallel computing, he brings an unusual mix of scientific rigor and hands-on systems optimization to product and team strategy.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. with Distinction Aerospace Engineering, B.S. with Distinction Aerospace Engineering at Iowa State University
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Github Skills (9)
javas10
refactoring10
geode10
java10
dependency-management9
springframework8
licensing6
gemfire6
spring-boot6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
apache/geode
Mar 2015 - Jun 2020
Apache Geode
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 333 commits, 107 PRs in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Anthony focused on addressing compiler warnings related to varargs, adding necessary casts to resolve potential issues. They also removed several classes used in Geode's internal CLI, like 'Assert', 'ObjectUtils', 'ReflectionUtils', and 'StringUtils', replacing them with equivalent components from the spring-core and commons-lang libraries. These refactors enhanced the codebase's maintainability and reduced dependencies on custom utility classes. Further, the user fixed StringUtils calls to resolve issues.
accumuloapachenetwork-serverdatagridjava
metatype/incubator-geode
Jan 2017 - Jun 2020
Mirror of Apache Geode (Incubating)
Contributions:121 pushes, 23 branches in 3 years 5 months
javaincubatingapachegeode
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