Location: SF Bay Area and Orange County
  Remote: Yes; Remote, On-site or Hybrid, all good
  Willing to relocate: within California
  Technologies: AWS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, SQL + Front-end
  Résumé/CV: pdf https://definite.dev/mibake/resume || https://linkedin.com/in/cleverbaker/
  Email: michael.baker@definite.dev

Full-stack Engineer here, hi. I’m looking to join a team dealing with Payments because I’m fascinated and curious about stringing together the complexities of money movement. I’m open to join a team who is working on anything new that’s growing, because, even more than legacy payments, scaling out value to the masses gets my passion hyped-up.. which for me is good fuel for good work.

20+ years a web dev, 10+ years in Silicon Valley; startup experience and FAANG experience, sprinkled with experience as a developer at marketing agencies.

My hard skills is why you hire me, my soft skills is why you choose me.
Full cycle software development is what I do–I encourage you to scope out my skills on LinkedIn and test me on them in our interview rounds. What makes me unique is my creative problem solving abilities, my confidence to take a leap with foresight, and how I interact with the team.

The last three years, since leaving my FAANG role, I’ve done a deep dive on Emotional Intelligence. I thought I had emotional intelligence before, but really I only had the half of it–turns out, emotional management is just as important as empathy.

I’m an individual contributor engineer, through and through. So that you can a sense of where my attention gravitates towards, I’m also interested in Sales Engineering (as an interest, not a career), talent scouting, mentoring, and Bitcoin, non-exclusively.

Email me for work opportunities that are open now.
Also, feel free to email me for possible opportunities to work together in the future.

Thank you. Cheers.