Tim Baek
Chief Wizard at Open WebUI
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Baek is a hands-on engineering leader and founder with nine years of experience building backend systems for AI tooling, currently leading Open WebUI as Chief Wizard. He focuses on pragmatic, on-prem deployment of conversational AI interfaces and has driven core backend features like RAG, image generation, and Python file upload in the open-webui project. Based in the United States, Tim blends product-focused execution with active open-source contributions, iterating on routes and utilities to make complex AI capabilities accessible. Known for a "make things happen" ethos, he pairs technical depth with a talent for shipping practical integrations that enable teams to run AI workloads safely on-prem.
9 years of coding experience
Summa Cum Laude, Summa Cum Laude at Gifted and Talented Education (Ministry of Education)
English, Korean, French, Spanish
Github Skills (9)
ag10
fastapi10
image-generation10
api10
backend10
python10
apidoc10
back-end-development10
json9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
open-webui/open-webui
Oct 2023 - Apr 2025
User-friendly AI Interface (Supports Ollama, OpenAI API, ...)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 255 reviews, 2928 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Tim's commits primarily focus on refactoring and adding functionality to the backend of the project. They have been working on the retrieval augmented generation (RAG) feature, modifying routes and utilities within the backend, suggesting active contributions to the overall backend development, and creating image generation capabilities. Specifically, the user implemented the ability for uploading a python file.
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open-webui/docs
Feb 2024 - Apr 2025
https://docs.openwebui.com
Contributions:87 reviews, 287 PRs, 510 pushes in 1 year 1 month
open-webui
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