Craig Baker
VP Of Engineering at UpGuard
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolCraig Baker is a veteran engineering leader with 11+ years scaling platform, architecture, and delivery teams across high-growth fintech and security businesses. Currently VP of Engineering at UpGuard, he focuses on pragmatic architecture boundaries, pipeline-first releases, SSDLC guardrails, and AI-assisted developer workflows to make execution predictable without slowing teams. Previously a founding engineer and Chief Architect at Afterpay, he helped grow engineering from day zero to a global organisation and built platforms that processed billions in payments and unlocked substantial GMV. Craig combines hands-on technical strategy with org design—building low-ego, end-to-end ownership cultures that ship reliably and securely. Based in Melbourne, he has a track record of turning complex integrations and platform work into measurable business outcomes, including a key integration that delivered ~$200M/year for Afterpay.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
VCE, VCE at Wesley CollegeBachelor's degree Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Science and Engineering at Monash University
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Github Skills (15)
extensible10
application-framework10
dropwizard10
storage10
limiting10
rate-limiting10
redis10
java10
magento-extension6
downgrade6
scipy6
python6
magento2-extension-free5
magento3
gpu1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mokies/ratelimitj
Jun 2016 - May 2022
A Java library for Rate-Limiting, providing extensible storage and application framework adaptors.
Contributions:11 releases, 3 reviews, 524 commits in 5 years 11 months
redisdropwizardrate-limitsjava-libraryrate-limiting
afterpay/afterpay-demandware
Apr 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:1 push, 1 issue in 1 year
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