Rafa Baca
Physical AI & Autonomous Systems Consultant, Cybersecurity, Data & EDiscovery Mgr, Python Dev
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolRafa Baca is a multidisciplinary privacy, AI and product counsel who blends nine years of hands-on software and data experience with deep legal expertise in privacy, cybersecurity, and IP. Based in Palo Alto, she advises startups and enterprises on privacy-by-design, risk frameworks for Physical AI and robotics, and complex cross-border data agreements including GDPR SCCs and CPRA-compliant assessments. Rafa has led privacy programs, incident response, and GRC implementations for regulated healthcare and SaaS products while partnering closely with engineering teams to operationalize secure, auditable data practices. As ABA Chair on Artificial Intelligence & Big Data committees and a national speaker, she shapes policy at the intersection of law and machine learning, with practical know-how in NLP, neural learning, and data science. Her unusual mix of prior in-house patent, regulatory and lab-focused data science work gives her a rare ability to translate technical constraints into defensible legal strategies for AI-enabled products.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Mechanical and Software Engineering, Mechanical and Software Engineering at UCSC Santa Cruz and Univ of New MexicoDoctor of Law - JD, Doctor of Law - JD at The University of New MexicoMasters Data Science (Software / Data Science), Masters Data Science (Software / Data Science) at University of New Haven
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Stackoverflow
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Github contributions (5)
Rafa-Baca/LEGAL_HANDBOOK
Nov 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:11 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
Rafa-Baca/Capstone---Orange-Silicon-Valley
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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