Ian Baker
Visiting Scholar, Berkeley AI Research Lab at Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorIan Baker is a versatile software engineer and research-oriented leader with 16 years of experience building production ML systems, startups, and large-scale web platforms. Currently a Visiting Scholar at Berkeley AI Research Lab and a Research Engineer at the Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative, he leads small teams to ship pragmatic code that studies recommender systems and online conflict dynamics with real-world impact. His background spans founding and exiting a startup, driving ML platform work at Dropbox, and shaping community-facing features at Wikimedia, giving him rare fluency across product, research, and engineering. Known for shipping fast, test-driven solutions across backend, infra, and client stacks, he pairs technical depth with a philosophical curiosity—self-described as a “Philosophical Zombie”—and a long-standing interest in making systems that improve human wellbeing.
16 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
English, Japanese
Stackoverflow
157reputation
3kreached
4answers
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Github Skills (72)
animation10
reddit10
fastled10
arduino9
envelope8
intercept7
bounce7
dms7
discord-bot7
robot7
ruby-on-rails6
heroku6
gmail-api6
telegram-bot6
python6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
HumanCompatibleAI/ranking-challenge
Jan 2024 - Oct 2024
Contributions:12 reviews, 76 PRs, 95 pushes in 9 months
raindrift/findthemasks
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
Website for findthemasks.com
Contributions:31 pushes, 10 branches in 8 days
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