Will Baker
Senior Software Engineer at Estuary
Greater Cleveland United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWill Baker is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building data infrastructure and distributed systems, currently leading integrations at Estuary where his team processes billions of events and terabytes of data daily. He brings strong backend and systems expertise from roles at InfluxData, where he designed live API token migrations, led a replication system linking 600k+ edge instances to cloud, and engineered query parsing improvements that sped high-cardinality queries by orders of magnitude. Will is comfortable across the stack—having contributed front-end work to the widely used InfluxDB UI while also authoring Go microservices, Kubernetes deployments, and an open-source GraphQL BaaS. His background as a chemical process engineer informs a pragmatic, data-driven approach to reliability and performance at scale. Based in Greater Cleveland, he combines hands-on technical leadership with a history of shipping production systems that satisfy strict uptime and security requirements.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Chemical Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Chemical Engineering at South Dakota Mines
Github Skills (13)
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
typescript-types10
ui-components10
testing9
automated-tests8
influxdb8
continuous-integration7
cin7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
influxdata/influxdb
Mar 2021 - Jan 2022
Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 399 reviews, 184 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Will primarily worked on UI-related tasks within the InfluxDB repository. Their contributions involved synchronizing the UI folder with the UI repository, updating existing UI components, and enabling feature flags. These changes are mainly in Javascript/Typescript, and also included fixes for existing e2e tests. They also had some work to enable the new Dashboard Autorefresh option in the UI.
real-time-analyticsscalablereactanalyticsevents
satellite-baas/satellite-baas.github.io
Dec 2020 - Jan 2021
Public website for Satellite
Contributions:56 commits, 6 PRs, 43 pushes in 14 days
satellite
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