JH Baek
Lead Principal ML Engineer & Data Scientist Defence Geospatial AI, MDA & Sensor Fusion
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolJH Baek is a Lead Principal ML Engineer specializing in geospatial intelligence and defense, with nine years of experience building production ML systems that span maritime threat detection, sensor fusion, and autonomous decision pipelines. He bridges defense-grade AI and consumer-scale ML products, having shipped systems at Saab after leading principal data science efforts at HP and earlier engineering roles at Intel, Broadcom, and Motorola. A U.S. citizen and clearance-eligible engineer based in San Diego, he combines deep systems and embedded expertise with modern MLOps, Python, LLMs, and Claude Code–driven workflows to accelerate delivery. Beyond technical delivery, he writes on AI-native development and developer productivity to influence how teams adopt LLM-augmented engineering practices.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoB.S., Electrical Engineering (Radio communication Engineering), B.S., Electrical Engineering (Radio communication Engineering) at KyungHee University, KoreaJava expert Programming Certificate, Java, Java expert Programming Certificate, Java at UCSD extension
Korean, English
Github Skills (35)
ktrain8
apply7
bert-embeddings7
nlp6
keras6
integrate6
multiclass-classification5
transfer-learning5
computer-vision5
machine-learning5
python5
connected5
visualization4
device-management4
fusion4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
zirubak/tempJenkins
Dec 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
zirubak/tempJenkinsPostTEst
Dec 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 9 days
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