Jason Baker
Director Of Cloud Operations
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Baker is a seasoned cloud and platform engineering leader with 11+ years of experience building and scaling mission-critical infrastructure for startups, enterprises, and GovTech organizations. As Director of Cloud Operations at Civix and former manager at Gravie and Exosite, he combines hands-on AWS architecture and automation expertise with a track record of recruiting and mentoring teams that deliver continuous delivery, infrastructure-as-code, and secure production services. He co-founded one of Minnesota’s largest privately held data center providers, grew it to a successful Fortune 500 acquisition, and later helped design operational infrastructure supporting thousands of businesses. An adjunct faculty member who created one of the nation’s first graduate DevOps courses, he’s trained hundreds of engineers and created extensive hands-on cloud curriculum. Known for turning complex regulatory and audit requirements into practical, automated systems, he bridges strategy, education, and execution to accelerate software delivery.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree (B.S.) Interdisciplinary - Technology and Communications, Bachelor's Degree (B.S.) Interdisciplinary - Technology and Communications at University of MinnesotaMaster of Science (M.S.) Software Engineering -- Big Data & Machine Learning Concentration, Master of Science (M.S.) Software Engineering -- Big Data & Machine Learning Concentration at University of St. Thomas
Github Skills (35)
docker10
cloud-infrastructure10
terraform10
infrastructure10
aws10
ansible10
devops10
kubernetes9
api7
lambda6
websocket6
browser6
testing6
load-testing5
serverless5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jasondbaker/infrastructure-class
Apr 2016 - Dec 2021
DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure Course (UST SEIS 615)
Contributions:1 review, 687 commits, 70 PRs in 5 years 9 months
cloud-infrastructuredevopsansibleinfrastructuredocker
jasondbaker/final
May 2018 - Dec 2021
Contributions:3 pushes in 3 years 7 months
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