David Baker
Senior Backend Engineer at Zapier
Sacramento, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Baker is a Senior Backend Engineer with over two decades of hands-on experience delivering web applications and APIs, currently shaping core Python/Django systems at Zapier. He specializes in backend architecture and scalable data pipelines, previously building integrations and API tooling at Dribbble and running a web consultancy focused on Rails and PHP. David blends pragmatic engineering with operational experience—having led teams, managed infrastructure, and reduced complex cohort setup processes from weeks to minutes through automation for The Collab Lab. Based in Sacramento, he remains active in the developer community as a speaker and organizer, and brings a curious multilingual background that includes Ruby, Elixir, JavaScript and legacy PHP systems.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
HND IT & Computing, HND IT & Computing at The Open University
English
Github Skills (80)
validation10
cakephp9
nette9
rapid9
authentication9
rest-api9
rapid-development9
php9
oauth9
mvc-framework9
form-builder9
cookbook9
concatenation9
authorization9
psr-78
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
fullybaked/dotfiles
Aug 2017 - Feb 2023
Contributions:18 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 7 months
fullybaked/CakeS3
Mar 2012 - Aug 2015
Contributions:38 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 3 years 5 months
file-storagephpamazonamazon-s3storage
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