Summary
Thomas Baker is a veteran Software Engineer V based in Tampa with over three decades of professional experience and 11 years in recent enterprise roles driving Grainger’s critical KeepStock platform. Microsoft, Oracle, and AWS certified, he bridges legacy and cloud-native ecosystems—rewriting and replatforming monolithic intranet and ordering systems into Kotlin/Spring Boot and AWS/Kubernetes pipelines while still maintaining deep expertise in .NET, WPF, and SAP integrations. He’s delivered end-to-end solutions spanning mobile, middleware, and telephony CTI interfaces, and designed the company-wide Simplified Order Entry used across thousands of machines. A pragmatic architect and hands-on coder, he has a proven track record of modernizing aging infrastructure, planning large intranet migrations, and reducing operational complexity. Outside corporate work he’s built consumer-facing tools like LEAF Buddy, showing a longstanding interest in practical IoT and mobile integrations.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts (AA), Associate of Arts (AA) at Eastern Florida State College