Nick Baker
Director Of Engineering at Sage Dental
Kissimmee, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Baker is a seasoned engineering leader with 15 years of experience directing teams and shipping full-stack software across travel, e-commerce, healthcare, and analytics domains. Currently leading engineering at Sage Dental and serving as Lead Developer at Southwest Airlines, he blends hands-on development with strategic scaling and delivery. His background at Pentaho includes significant contributions to the Pentaho Data Access Wizard, where he worked across Java back-end and JavaScript UI, showing comfort merging complex branches and resolving integration challenges. Nick has held senior and principal engineering roles at Wayfair, Corvana, and others, and has run his own consulting and product efforts, demonstrating both corporate and entrepreneurial chops. Based in Kissimmee, Florida, he is adept at translating product needs into pragmatic, maintainable systems and accelerating teams through technical mentorship. A quieter strength is his cross-functional fluency—able to jump from UI fixes to architecture discussions—making him effective at reducing risk during fast growth.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
University HighComputer Science, Computer Science at University of Central Florida
Github Skills (7)
javascript10
java9
javas9
back-end-development8
front-end-development8
git7
ui-design6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
pentaho/data-access
Apr 2011 - Aug 2013
Pentaho Data Access Wizard
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:119 commits in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily contributed to the Pentaho Data Access Wizard, making changes across both the front-end (JavaScript) and back-end (Java). They integrated changes from different branches and repositories, indicating involvement in merging code and resolving conflicts. The code modifications included updates to UI components and Java source code, suggesting the user's role involved both front-end and back-end development.
data-accesswizardpentaho
CodeOnCoffee/kettle-osgi-bridge
Apr 2011 - Feb 2012
Contributions:8 commits in 9 months
osgikettleplugintraditional
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