Summary
James Baker is a principal product leader and seasoned technical program manager with over two decades of experience designing and shipping complex platform and developer-facing products across Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle. He blends deep engineering roots—from early Exchange and Remote Desktop systems to AWS real-time protocols and Meta’s Horizon developer experiences—with product strategy and cross-organizational program delivery. Known for navigating large-scale migrations and integrations (e.g., Live@edu to Office 365, Exchange transport/administration) he excels at aligning engineering, security, and partner teams to launch reliable, scalable systems. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, he moves fluidly between hands-on technical problem solving and executive stakeholder management, often surfacing pragmatic SDK and API designs that improve third-party extensibility. A subtle throughline in his career is an emphasis on developer experience and platform interoperability, making him effective at turning complex platform constraints into usable products.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
University of Georgia
Montclair High School
BBA, Computer Based management Information Systems, BBA, Computer Based management Information Systems at Howard University