Rhoda Baker
Supply Chain Planner at PepsiCo
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRhoda Baker is a Supply Chain Planner with 12 years of hands-on experience at PepsiCo, blending a PhD in Chemical Engineering with practical expertise in demand planning, logistics and optimization algorithms. She designs data-driven forecasting and real-time labor models, applies dynamic modelling and statistical process control to reduce shortages and improve capacity planning, and has built Python and Excel tools to operationalize those insights. Her background in academic research and postdoctoral work gives her deep experience with constrained dynamic optimization and algorithm development—skills she translates into practical supply chain solutions. Outside work she contributes front-end fixes to an open-source crafting optimizer, showing an appetite for applied coding and user-facing improvement. Based in Mississauga, Ontario, she is known for turning complex mathematical methods into robust, operational forecasting and inventory policies.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
PhD, Chemical Engineering, PhD, Chemical Engineering at McMaster UniversityMSc, Chemical Engineering, MSc, Chemical Engineering at University of Cape Town
Afrikaans
Github Skills (5)
javascript10
front-end-development10
angularjs9
html9
css8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
doxxx/ffxiv-craft-opt-web
Jan 2014 - Jul 2017
Web frontend for FFXIV Crafting Optimizer service.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:178 commits, 1 PR, 32 pushes in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Rhoda contributed to the front-end of the FFXIV Crafting Optimizer web application. Their work primarily involved adding and correcting data related to crafting actions, including class and level information. Furthermore, the user added an about page to the web application, corrected name displays of various actions, and made adjustments to the displayed column widths.
frontendoptimizercraftingffxivfrontend-web
lokyst/ffxivcraftopt
Dec 2013 - Feb 2014
Contributions:68 commits in 2 months
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