Nicholas Baker
Software Engineer II at CoreWeave
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Baker is a Software Engineer II with seven years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and developer tooling, currently based in Seattle. He has deep EKS and AWS experience from multiple roles at Amazon Web Services, contributing to infrastructure automation like the widely used awslabs/amazon-eks-ami project where he improved AMI build and runtime integrations. His background spans software development and DevOps, with internships in SageMaker and hands-on work automating container runtimes, AWS CLI, and systemd services. Nicholas pairs an MS in Cyber Security and a BS in Computer Science with practical production engineering, bringing a security-minded approach to cloud platform reliability. An otaku at heart, he blends focused technical rigor with curiosity and a taste for complex systems.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Cyber Security, Master of Science - MS Cyber Security at The University of Texas at Dallas
Github Skills (15)
amazon-eks10
kubernetes10
automation10
systemd10
containerd10
infrastructure10
cloud-infrastructure10
bash10
automations10
cloud-services10
aws10
kubernetes-pods10
dockers9
cicd9
docker9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
awslabs/amazon-eks-ami
Jun 2023 - Oct 2025
Packer configuration for building a custom EKS AMI
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 525 reviews, 301 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Nicholas primarily focused on infrastructure and build automation tasks related to the Amazon EKS AMI. They contributed to the configuration of the Amazon EKS AMI, including the installation and setup of tools like AWS CLI, container runtime (containerd), and related utilities. Their commits show modifications to installation scripts, configuration files, and systemd services, enhancing the AMI's functionality and integration with AWS services, including ECR.
packer
ndbaker1/MVR
Aug 2022 - Dec 2024
Minimal VR Simulation for 📱 Mobile Devices
Contributions:18 PRs, 77 pushes, 24 branches in 2 years 4 months
unityvirtual-realityvrchat
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