Derek Baker is a Senior Staff Engineer with nine years of experience designing and delivering cloud-native distributed systems, currently leading cross-team architecture for Global Buying Tools at The TJX Companies. He specializes in C#, serverless architectures on Azure, infrastructure-as-code with Bicep, and modern app stacks including Blazor and AzureDevOps pipelines, and has driven integrations involving LLMs in production contexts. Derek’s background spans full lifecycle work from data warehousing and ETL to B2B e-commerce and POS migrations, showing a practical blend of backend, cloud, and DevOps expertise. Based in Chattanooga, he pairs a methodical engineering approach with continuous learning—evident in both adopting cutting-edge serverless patterns and training in Brazilian jiu-jitsu—bringing steady leadership and hands-on execution to complex, cross-organizational initiatives.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at SUNY Polytechnic Institute
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