Summary
Jo Baker is a founder and CEO with 14+ years building ecommerce shipping platforms and extensions, best known for creating WebShopApps and ShipperHQ which serve tens of thousands of merchants and integrate deeply with Magento and BigCommerce. He combines hands-on technical leadership (starting coding at age 9 and formerly a technical lead at EDS and Thomson Reuters) with product and partnership strategy, moving his UK-born business to Austin to scale globally. His teams have shipped 150+ Magento extensions and transitioned over 16,000 paying customers into a cloud-native shipping-rate solution used across 70+ countries. Comfortable bridging corporate IT rigor and startup agility, he focuses on quality, service and practical innovation in checkout, cart and logistics integrations. An unapologetic challenger of red tape, he pairs unconventional thinking with discipline to solve complex commerce shipping problems.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
2:1 Computer Science Bsc, 2:1 Computer Science Bsc at University of Hull