# adam baker > Multidisciplinary technologist animated by three passions: Music, medicine, and design. Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/adambaker I help teams pathfind in complex problem spaces, improve product design chops, and ship elegant products with a strong focus on advancing the public good. I’ve guided teams, designed and coded products, and shared UX practices to help the world interact with information—in cutting-edge biology research at Calico (Alphabet), medical information at Iodine (GoodRx), public health data at FDA, search at Google, public health and climate at Google.org, business software at Marketcircle, and design practices at Apple, plus a wide range of other projects. I love working cross-functionally, digging into the details, helping others develop design and problem-solving skills, and making organizations feel like great places to work. Outside of work, you might find me writing and producing music, leading a Burning Man camp, biking, hiking, or bouldering, or extolling widely the virtues of Golden Retrievers or of Star Trek: The Next Generation. ☺️ ## Work Experience ### Executive, Product Management and User Experience @ GE HealthCare Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area Bringing design-forward product thinking to AI and UX for medical imaging, care pathway, and operational domains. ### Principal Engineer, Design and Software Product Leader @ Calico Life Sciences Jan 2017 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area Synthesizing user needs with design possibility in complex scientific problem spaces, building easy-to-use software for research scientists working at the cutting edge of biology. ### Director of Product Design @ iodine Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 Bringing a human voice and medical evidence to the everyday experience of finding and taking medications. Design, product, and front-end development leadership and many-hat execution. ### openFDA Product + Design Lead @ FDA Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 Open-source, open-access, developer-friendly important public health datasets—drugs, medical devices, and foods. Product and design leadership and execution, including API design and documentation. ### User Experience Designer @ Google Jan 2007 – Jan 2012 Full-stack UX as a steward of the tools the world uses to interact with information—from Google Search to company-wide design education and lots in between. ### User Experience Designer @ Google.org Jan 2008 – Jan 2011 | San Francisco As the first full-time UX specialist at Google’s for-public-good organization, I brought full-stack research and design to projects in public health, climate change, and scientific data. ### Design Director @ Marketcircle Jan 2006 – Jan 2007 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada Led design and helped grow this Mac business software standard-setter with revamped and new products, branding, and design culture. ### Usability Analyst / User Interface Design Intern @ Research In Motion Jan 2004 – Jan 2004 Performed and analyzed usability tests on text input software and BlackBerry 77xx0-series keypad design to optimize input speed. ### User Experience Evangelist Intern @ Apple Jan 2002 – Jan 2003 Stewarded & wrote content for two major editions of the venerable Apple Human Interface Guidelines and other UX evangelism materials, organized the UX clinic at WWDC, and consulted on Mac UX 1:1 with dozens of developers big and small to ensure they developed the apps with best-in-class Mac OS X user experiences. ## Education ### Bachelor of Independent Studies in Interaction Design, Evidence Based Shared Decision Making University of Waterloo Jan 2001 – Jan 2016 ### Fine Art and Design Emily Carr University of Art and Design Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/adambaker - Portfolio: https://www.merges.net/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/adambaker JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/adambaker/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-25