Patrick Baker
Senior Software Engineer at Target
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Baker is a Senior Software Engineer in Minneapolis with 8 years of full-stack experience building React frontends, JavaScript backends (REST/GraphQL), Kotlin APIs, Python pub-sub microservices, and PostgreSQL systems. He blends technical depth with people-first collaboration—mentoring engineers, driving architecture and CI/CD improvements, and creating onboarding docs and testing optimizations at Target. A former researcher, teacher, and retail manager, Patrick brings strong communication, empathy, and process discipline to engineering teams. He’s comfortable moving between UI and distributed backend work and has a knack for turning manual workflows into maintainable, automated pipelines. Multilingual and well-traveled, he leverages cultural curiosity and language learning to connect across teams and contexts. Outside work he’s an avid board-gamer and lifelong learner who enjoys digging into the “nuts and bolts” of systems.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Critical Analysis of Language and Society, Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies, Critical Analysis of Language and Society, Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies at University of Wisconsin-Eau ClaireFull-stack software engineering certification, Computer Software Engineering, Full-stack software engineering certification, Computer Software Engineering at Prime Digital Academy
Russian
Github Skills (17)
javascript10
css10
nodejs10
ruby9
ruby-on-rails9
web-development9
html9
vocabulary7
natural-language-processing4
nlp4
react4
deep-learning3
machine-learning3
text-classification3
mobile-first2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
patrick-baker/lexikOn
Nov 2019 - Jan 2020
LexikOn is a mobile-first web app that helps language learners to increase their vocabulary.
Contributions:58 commits, 14 PRs, 34 pushes in 2 months
reactlexikonjavascriptlearnersvocabulary
patrick-baker/java-masterclass
Jan 2020 - Apr 2020
Contributions:58 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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