Jason Baker
Sr. Software Engineer at Alaska Airlines
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolJason Baker is a senior software engineer based in Seattle with nine years of front-end and design-system experience, currently shaping the Auro Design System at Alaska Airlines. He blends UI/UX craftsmanship with pragmatic engineering from his senior roles at Augmentir and Vizualiiz, and runs his own consultancy, Capsule 42. His background includes large-scale content and release work at Microsoft and product-focused web development in healthcare and travel, giving him a strong mix of process discipline and creative problem solving. An avid photographer and outdoorsman, he applies a visual sensibility to interface design and a knack for spotting elegant solutions in complex systems. Jason’s career reflects a steady progression from content and QA disciplines into architecture and team leadership, with an entrepreneurial streak that keeps him shipping polished, user-centered products.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts - AA Art/Art Studies General, Associate of Arts - AA Art/Art Studies General at Ventura College
Github Skills (33)
html-element10
generator10
webpages10
radiogroup10
textinput10
custom-element10
hyperlink10
design-tokens9
radio-buttons9
atomic9
rows9
dismissible9
two-dimensional8
web-components8
tabular8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
AlaskaAirlines/AuroDocsSite
Oct 2024 - May 2026
Repository for the management of the Auro doc site
Contributions:25 reviews, 39 PRs, 42 pushes in 1 year 7 months
aurodesign-system
AlaskaAirlines/auro-backtotop
Aug 2023 - Jan 2026
HTML custom element to allow for quick return to top of page
Contributions:12 reviews, 19 PRs, 19 pushes in 2 years 5 months
design-systemauro
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.