Christopher Baker

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About Christopher Baker

Chris is a experienced Architect, Principal Engineer and product development leader with 20+ years of experience connecting solutions to problems through ‘break-through’ product innovation. Architected and Lead development team of new multi-tenant SaaS eDiscovery application deployed on AWS: Founded team and grew to over 18 members.President's Award, Orthopedic This Week, Spine Technology Award | Incisive MD software.WiredWrite: first officially certified 100% pure Java application showcased at: JavaOne, Internet Showcase, MacWorld Expo KeynoteGuy Kawasaki's Eight Coolest Products of the Year-* Specialized in new product, new feature and process development: taken many products from seed/business plan stage to paying customers using Agile and Lean software development methodologies.* Focus on whole product usability where ease of use is a critical design goal.* Co-founded CrossCurrent Inc, starting from a business plan to 10 million in investment; neurosurgery and orthopedic surgery customers nationwide.* Defined product and brought to market products on a wide range of platforms: shrink-wrapped retail software, SaaS, OEM, Hardware/embedded, multi-tier enterprise, web.* Expert at Agile, user stories and use cases, product roadmap, agile backlogs, market requirements, and competitive positioning.* Blend technical competence with the interpersonal skills to build teams and processes that deliver value to employees, customers and shareholders.* Intimately familiar with every aspect of the software product development lifecycle in Engineering Management, Architect and Product Manager/Owner roles.* Strategic and tactical business planning, product direction, program management, product capabilities.* Agile, Scrum, DevOps, Automated Build pipelines, CI/CD, SSDLC* AWS, Containers and autoscaling (Kubernetes, Lambda, ECS,* Distributed Systems for Cloud and remote safety critical, confidental * Linux (Ubuntu Server), Mac, Windows* High performance data storage and access: SQL (row and column oriented versions), Elasticsearch, mongoDB, Redshift, Vertica, MySQL, Postgres, AWS Aurora, AWS Athena, Spark, Snowflake, Databricks* JavaScript, C/C++/C#/Java* Javascript Web Front Ends* Video and Audio compression: MPEG, ADPCM, Group II Class 3 telecommunications for facsimile* Cybersecurity frameworks for Regulated Industries, Aerospace, Healthcare, Financial Services* Digital RIghts Management (DRM)* Application Performance Monitoring and Logging (APM)