# Dominic Baker > Senior Software Engineer | Distributed Systems, Fraud & Workflow Infrastructure | Ex-Meta Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/dominicbaker I design distributed systems that operate at scale. Most recently, I architected Cash App’s first account-level claims platform, enabling reusable fraud workflows across ~20M customers and ~40K daily disputes. My work focused on domain modeling, event-driven architecture, and building extensible system primitives that other teams could build upon. Previously, I was a software engineer at Meta contributing to privacy infrastructure serving billions of users under evolving global regulatory constraints. Earlier in my career, I led enterprise architecture and large-scale integrations across Fortune 500 organizations, designing internal platforms, complex data models, and cross-system workflows. I’m particularly interested in: - Distributed workflow systems - Fraud & trust infrastructure - Event-driven architectures - Platform design and extensible system primitives Languages: Kotlin, Python, TypeScript Core areas: Temporal workflows, event sourcing, GraphQL, materialized views ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Cash App Jan 2024 – Present At Cash App, I worked on the Trust & Disputes platform supporting ~20M customers and ~40K daily disputes. My focus was building scalable, reusable infrastructure for fraud and account-level claim workflows. • Architected Cash App’s first non-transaction-based claims model, establishing reusable primitives later extended by other teams (e.g., denylist appeals, missing-transaction claims) • Designed distributed investigation workflows using Temporal and event-driven architecture • Replaced fragmented legacy decision logs with materialized view–backed activity infrastructure • Led rollout of dispute visibility within enriched receipts (1% → 100% phased launch) • Designed and implemented regulatory-aligned customer claim withdrawal workflow • Led SEV response for appeal workflow failures, implementing backfills and architectural safeguards Selected for Elevate Engineering Program (top 20%). Technologies: Kotlin, Temporal, GraphQL, MySQL, React ### Software Engineer @ Facebook Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | Menlo Park, California, United States Worked on privacy infrastructure supporting billions of users across Privacy Checkup and Privacy Center. Contributed to backend systems governing global user privacy settings under evolving regulatory constraints (GDPR, CCPA). • Delivered production features impacting global privacy preference management at scale • Built and maintained backend services within Meta’s typed monorepo (Hack) • Collaborated cross-functionally with product, privacy, and legal stakeholders • Improved on-call triage and SLA workflows for privacy systems • Participated in large-scale code review and production deployment processes • Mentored engineers ramping across multiple languages and internal infrastructure Technologies: Hack, React, GraphQL, internal backend frameworks ### Application Engineer @ Facebook Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Menlo Park, California ### Salesforce Lightning Engineer @ Genentech Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Technical Architect @ Opendoor Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Senior Software Engineer @ Atlassian Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco, California Partnered with outside teams to integrate Managed Packages Replaced Visualforce Pages with Lightning components Written batch APEX to clean and manages status and pipeline of Leads Configured and customized Salesforce CPQ ### Technical Architect @ Google Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area - Developed Case Management system for Google Fiber - Created Single Page Applications with AngularJS internally and using Force.com Sites - Bi-directional integration between Salesforce and internal systems using REST API - Create Lightning components and Visualforce pages compatible with Salesforce1 - Update data model for more useful reporting ### Technical Architect @ Twitter Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area Customized a new implementation of Salesforce Console for the Ads team with dynamic components Migrated a single object structure to a relational model to improve productivity and reporting. Integrated Salesforce data with a SQL database for use in Tableau reporting. ### Sr. Force.com Engineer @ Facebook Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Bay Area - Develop complex logic and solutions for multiple internal applications - Collaborate with business stakeholders to finalize designs - Utilize Git for effective version control across different, and changing, developers ### Sr. Salesforce Developer @ Salesforce Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Bay Area - Led development for redesigned and increasing efficiency within internal applications. - Worked with a multiple teams, both internal and consultants, to build a solution across different platforms (Force.com, WorkDay, etc.) - Collaborated with both onsite and remote developers to architect solutions - Mentored and coached entry-level and junior developers - Utilize Perforce for effective version control across different, and changing, developers ### Sr. Salesforce.com Developer @ Blackboard Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 - Led an onsite and offshore development team - Architected complex Salesforce solutions and integrations - Developed Salesforce applications for internal staff, our customer portal, and partner portal - Developed integrations with JIRA and PeopleSoft systems using web services, APIs, and Cast Iron ### Salesforce Developer @ Compuware Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | West Allis, WI - Led an onsite team of employees and contractors - Gathered requirements for the stakeholders and created project structures - Enhanced the clients current business process by developing new and innovative solutions - Integrated Salesforce with a external servers using web services and Informatica ### Salesforce Developer @ Sales Optimizer, LLC Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 | Altamonte Springs, Florida, United States - Designed and built company website using Force.com Site - Developed customer applications using APEX, Visualforce, Web services, APIs, and other technologies within and outside of Force.com ## Education ### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Economics Dartmouth College ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/dominicbaker --- Source: https://flows.cv/dominicbaker JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/dominicbaker/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-11