Brandon Baker
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Baker is a backend-focused software engineer with 10 years of experience building scalable services for education and marketing platforms, now a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI after senior and lead engineering roles at Klaviyo. He has deep expertise in data modeling, search endpoints, and order/fulfillment flows evidenced by significant contributions to Open edX projects like course-discovery and ecommerce, where he improved program-query performance and refactored complex relationships. Comfortable shipping production changes and tests, he has a track record of improving maintainability and error handling across large Python codebases. Based in New York, he combines a dual academic background in computer science and physics with hands-on research programming experience, bringing analytical rigor to product engineering. An interesting detail: his open-source work includes custom applicators and partitioning changes that optimize certificate and checkout workflows—small changes that materially improve user-facing systems.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at St. Andrew's SchoolComputer Science and Physics, Computer Science and Physics at Wesleyan University
Github Skills (24)
data-migration10
api-rest10
postgresql10
data-service10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
python10
api-design10
restful-api10
django10
testing10
data-modeling10
webservice10
api10
edx10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
openedx-unsupported/ecommerce
Sep 2018 - Jun 2020
(Deprecated) Service for managing edX's product catalog and handling orders for those products
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 30 PRs, 159 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Brandon primarily focused on enhancing the backend service, specifically by implementing a custom program applicator to optimize program offer queries. They modified existing files related to offer application logic, tests, and constants. The commits also show modifications to basket functionality and fulfillment modules, indicating contributions to the order processing and checkout flow. Furthermore, the user worked on adding a prospectus worker to the ecommerce throttle and passing query parameters to disable the back button on the receipt page.
djangoedxproduct-catalogbackend-servicehandling
openedx/course-discovery
Aug 2018 - Sep 2019
Service providing access to consolidated course and program metadata
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:46 commits, 96 PRs, 201 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Brandon primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the course discovery service. Their work involved refactoring and migrating data models, specifically focusing on pathways and their relationships with programs, and adapting serializers to reflect those changes. They also implemented changes to the course search endpoint and program listing to expose additional data points and ensure the correct information for various data model relationships is displayed. In addition, they improved code maintainability and test coverage across the project.
data-managementconsolidateditilbackend-servicemetadata
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