Hayden Baker
Software Engineer at Stedi
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHayden Baker is a software engineer with nine years of experience building cloud-native backend systems and developer tooling, currently contributing at Stedi after roles at Amazon and AWS. He holds a Computer Science degree from Cal Poly SLO and has strong interpersonal and leadership skills that complement his hands-on engineering work. At AWS he contributed to the widely used aws-sdk-java-v2, implementing signer interfaces and a BearerHttpSigner with performance optimizations—an indicator of his focus on secure, high-performance integrations. His background spans production engineering, cloud operations, and test automation, giving him a pragmatic view of reliability and delivery. Colleagues describe him as technically curious and effective at turning complex protocol-level requirements into robust, maintainable code.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Github Skills (9)
javas10
user-authentication10
authentication10
api10
apidoc10
java10
aws-sdk10
cryptography9
event-stream8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
aws/aws-sdk-java-v2
May 2023 - Nov 2023
The official AWS SDK for Java - Version 2
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:336 reviews, 76 PRs, 279 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Hayden's commits focus on adding and implementing interface stubs for various signer implementations within the AWS SDK for Java v2. This primarily involves defining interfaces for new signing schemes related to event streams, S3, and Bearer token authentication. The commits also encompass updates to existing signer stubs to reflect the latest interface changes. Additionally, the user added an initial default implementation of the BearerHttpSigner class, along with performance optimizations.
amazonaws-sdksdkawsjava
haydenbaker/smithy
Oct 2022 - Jun 2024
Smithy is a protocol-agnostic interface definition language and set of tools for generating clients, servers, and documentation for any programming language.
Contributions:32 releases, 3 PRs, 86 pushes in 1 year 8 months
smithyagnosticprogramming-languageclientsdefinition
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