Varun Baker
Web Development Consultant at New York City Department of Transportation
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVarun Baker is a seasoned web development consultant and enterprise architect with over a decade of hands-on experience designing scalable web services and Drupal-based digital experiences for government and large enterprises. He has led major migrations (30+ sites to Drupal 10), cut support costs by 61% through platform distributions, and implemented CI/CD automation for Acquia and Pantheon environments. Varun combines cloud architecture (AWS, containers, RDS) and API design with user-centered solutions for low-bandwidth contexts—work he applied in civic-tech projects across the Caribbean, including an agricultural API and SMS-enabled services to combat praedial larceny. He’s equally comfortable translating business requirements into detailed architectures and running budgetary IT projections, and he mentors open-source contributors through programs like GSOC. Based in Washington, DC, Varun brings a pragmatic, public-sector-focused perspective that consistently reduces delivery risk and operational costs.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science and Electronics(double major), Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science and Electronics(double major) at The University of the West Indies, Mona
Italian, English, Portuguese, creoles and pidgins, english-based
Github Skills (40)
drupal10
datastore10
open-data10
php10
dkan10
portal10
ckan9
mongoosejs8
mongoose7
boostrap6
expressjs6
bcrypt5
mongodb5
boilerplate5
angularjs5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
CodeForTheCaribbean/HarvestAPI
Nov 2013 - Apr 2015
Contributions:84 commits, 7 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 5 months
apiagriculturaldocker
Farm-Credibly/nft
Sep 2021 - Apr 2022
Contributions:15 pushes in 6 months
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