Oliver Baker
Senior Frontend Developer at Alvarez & Marsal
Dallas, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOliver Baker is a Senior Frontend Developer and empathetic technical lead based in Dallas with eight years of consulting and hands-on product experience across eight industries. He blends design sensibility and full-stack knowledge—rooted in a BA in Arts & Technology with a CS minor—to deliver user-centered, technically sound frontend solutions. Having progressed from creative director and full‑stack roles to leading engineering teams, he excels at reducing cross-functional friction and aligning product, UX, and engineering priorities. His ADHD-driven curiosity fuels a broad skill set that helps him see the full picture and propose pragmatic, creative solutions that managers and engineers trust.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Arts and Technology, minor in Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Arts and Technology, minor in Computer Science at The University of Texas at DallasRichland Community College
English
Github Skills (41)
accessibility10
ui-components10
react-spring10
typescript10
styled-components10
react10
arjs9
animation9
threejs9
react-three-fiber9
akka-actors8
css8
javascript8
portal7
css-in-js7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Headstorm/pittscurb-frontend
May 2020 - May 2020
Pittscurb frontend app
Contributions:51 PRs, 73 pushes, 27 branches in 6 days
front-endreactfrontendfrontend-app
Headstorm/foundry-ui
Feb 2020 - Jan 2023
Foundry-UI is a React UI Library built which prioritizes theming, accessibility, and performance. Fully typed with TypeScript, animated by react-spring, themed with styled-components, and made accessible by polished and jest-axe.
Contributions:256 reviews, 668 commits, 262 PRs in 3 years
accessibilityreactreact-springstyled-componentstypescript
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