# Jeffrey Baker

> Staff Engineer at Datadog

Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jeffreybaker

I make your web faster.

## Work Experience
### Staff Engineer @ Datadog
Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Vice President, Site Reliability Engineering @ Goldman Sachs
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
Apple Card. How does it even work?

### Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Tech Lead @ Dropbox
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
TL for SRE team attached to central metadata service underlying all products at Dropbox. Responsibilities ranged from software performance analysis, capacity and disaster planning, monitoring and tracing at scale, as well as team leadership and mentoring.

### Staff Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2010 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
As the Tech Lead of Gmail Delivery SRE, was responsible for performance, reliability, and cost of all message delivery to and from Gmail, spam classification, virus checks, and email intelligence features.  Performed long-term capacity planning for this very large, globally distributed service.  Launched major public features such as Inbox by Google, Smart Reply, and many other smaller projects.

As a member of Google Wide Profiling team, I was responsible for measuring and improving C++ application performance across all of Google.

### Skunk @ Gilder Gagnon Howe & Co
Jan 2001 – Jan 2007

### Lead Software Developer @ Vivaldi Networks
Jan 2000 – Jan 2001

### Developer @ Direct Commerce
Jan 2000 – Jan 2001

### Developer @ Vivaldi Networks
Jan 1999 – Jan 2000

### Developer @ CriticalPath
Jan 1998 – Jan 1999
I wrote the Mail Administration Center with J. Logan, working in the Provisioning group under D. Bernard.


## Education
### Texas A&M University                  · Mechanical Engineering


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jwbaker

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Last updated: 2026-04-12