Derek Baker
Senior Staff Engineer at jiu-jitsu
Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolDerek 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
English
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Github Skills (198)
nuget10
messaging10
masstransit10
react-pdf10
csv-parsing10
pdf-generation10
dotnet10
data-engineer10
rabbitmq10
firefox10
azure-service-bus10
powershell10
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application-framework10
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
derek-baker/scraping-service
Aug 2020 - Oct 2021
Update to a containerized web-scraping service based on a Google Dev Advocate's published article.
Contributions:16 commits, 3 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 1 month
advocatedevcontainerizeddockerservice-based
derek-baker/functional-programming-jargon
Jul 2022 - Aug 2022
Jargon from the functional programming world in simple terms!
Contributions:13 commits, 13 pushes in 1 month
functional-programmingjargonlazy-evaluationmonadsgeneric-programming
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