Derek Baron
Manager, AI Platform
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorDerek Baron is a software engineering leader with 20+ years of experience and a decade in senior management, currently building AI platform capabilities at Axon after scaling Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler 20x at AWS. He specializes in distributed AI systems, knowledge graph platforms, and large-scale data quality and transformation tooling—skills honed through long tenures at Microsoft where he helped create and operationalize web-scale semantic graphs. Derek blends science and engineering leadership to turn research innovations into product features adopted across organizations, with a track record of accelerating cross-product development. Based in Bellevue, WA, he pairs systems-level architecture thinking with hands-on delivery in productionizing data and ML workflows, and is comfortable navigating both research-driven and product-focused teams.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (4)
headers9
iptc8
image8
nodejs6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
derekbaron/node-iptc
Feb 2016 - Nov 2017
A node.js library to extract IPTC data from image headers
Contributions:12 commits, 3 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year 9 months
imagejs-libraryiptcnode-jsheaders
derekbaron/janusgraph
Oct 2020 - Oct 2020
JanusGraph: an open-source, distributed graph database
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
databasegraphgraph-databasejanusgraphjava
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