Jeffrey Baird
Engineering Manager at Skillshare
City of Rochester, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJeffrey Baird is an engineering manager with 14 years of experience building secure, reliable web applications across healthcare and fintech using Ruby, Elixir, PHP, and JavaScript. Currently leading engineering at Skillshare after progressing from senior engineer to manager, he has a track record of shipping complex integrations and data-model redesigns, notably leading a Roostify integration with JPMorgan Chase and redesigning a Rails monolith. He pairs hands-on development and architecture work with people leadership, having managed offshore teams and mentored developers on security and regulated-environment compliance. Earlier roles include building FISMA-high medical software workflows and accelerating CI/CD and monitoring systems to handle millions of events per month. Based in Rochester, NY, he brings entrepreneurial roots—founding startups and teaching Ruby—to his pragmatic, delivery-focused leadership style.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Marine Transportation, Marine Transportation at United States Merchant Marine AcademyBachelor of Science (B.S.), Entrepreneurship, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Entrepreneurship at University of South Florida - College of Business Administration
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Github Skills (33)
media-type10
mime10
mime-types10
database8
railsapps6
vim6
rails-app6
vi6
ruby6
git6
twitter6
javascript6
conversations5
crowd5
apollo-federation5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jeffreybaird/jeffreybaird.github.com
Oct 2015 - Jul 2026
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes in 10 years 11 months
hostingmy-blogdocker
jeffreybaird/sinatra-cl
Aug 2013 - Aug 2013
Contributions:28 commits in 8 days
railsscaffoldsinatraruby
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