Richard Baker
Staff Cell Lifetime Engineer at Tesla
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Baker is a Staff Cell Lifetime Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with 14 years of cross-disciplinary experience blending reliability engineering, materials science, mechanical and biomedical engineering. He has led reliability teams at Tesla, driving product requirements, validation plans, fleet data analyses and risk assessments across powertrain, thermal, charging and power distribution systems. Earlier work at Exponent built deep expertise in X-ray CT, polymer fractography, and failure analysis for batteries, medical devices, and consumer electronics, where he managed CT capabilities and client-facing investigations. His PhD work on shape memory polymers and cell mechanobiology informs an uncommon combination of hands-on materials development and large-scale field reliability insights. Known for rigorous root-cause analysis and practical validation strategies, he moves problems from microscopic failure modes to fleet-level reliability projections. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex failure mechanisms into actionable engineering plans that improve product lifetime.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Biomedical Engineering, PhD Biomedical Engineering at Syracuse UniversityB.S. Biomedical Engineering Mechanical Engineering, B.S. Biomedical Engineering Mechanical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Github Skills (200)
payment-gateway10
sms10
flask-restful10
aws-s310
bitrise10
google-pay10
flask10
client-library10
cloud-foundry10
api10
payment10
api-authentication10
aggregate10
facebook-messenger10
marshmallow10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
rjbaker/3taps-php-client
Sep 2013 - Sep 2015
Contributions:16 commits, 1 push in 2 years
rjbaker/simple-magento-vagrant
Jul 2013 - Dec 2014
A VERY simple Magento environment provisioner for Vagrant
Contributions:20 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 5 months
magento2vagrantmagentoprovisioner
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