Chris Baker
Software Engineering Manager, Math Libraries
Alton, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolChris Baker is a software engineering manager and math libraries lead with 11 years of industry experience building high-performance, distributed systems spanning cloud orchestration, serverless containers, and scientific computing. He has led engineering teams and roadmaps at NVIDIA and AWS, acted as tech lead on VP-level skunkworks for next-generation container compute, and drove the Nomad ecosystem at HashiCorp while contributing to the core scheduler and autoscaler. His background includes deep numerical and HPC research—PhD-level work on Trilinos and Titan-era supercomputing—that informs pragmatic designs for scalable math and runtime libraries. Chris combines hands-on backend contributions (including significant scheduler and scaling-policy work in the widely used HashiCorp Nomad project) with people leadership, mentoring, and product-facing RFC/PRD ownership. Based in Alton, Texas, he bridges academic rigor and production-grade engineering to deliver performant, maintainable infrastructure. An atypical strength is his ability to translate advanced numerical algorithms into operational cloud services and orchestration features.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computational Science, PhD Computational Science at Florida State University
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Github Skills (16)
orchestration10
go10
api10
orchestra10
nomad10
apidoc10
distributed-systems9
jenkins6
maven6
nvidia6
nvidia-docker6
docker6
sbt6
gpu6
artifactory6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/nomad
Aug 2019 - May 2021
Nomad is an easy-to-use, flexible, and performant workload orchestrator that can deploy a mix of microservice, batch, containerized, and non-containerized applications. Nomad is easy to operate and scale and has native Consul and Vault integrations.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 200 reviews, 312 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the backend and internal workings of the Nomad orchestrator. They added functionality to the interpolation documentation, fixed documentation for CLI commands, and improved the scheduler's logic around device handling. The user implemented significant changes to the scaling policy logic. They updated the node drain API, introduced a new method to retrieve scaling policies, and modified the job scale endpoint.
vaultperformantmicroserviceworkloadoperate
GalacticFog/gestalt-security-play
Jul 2016 - Sep 2018
Contributions:4 PRs, 19 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 1 month
gestaltsecurityplay-framework
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