# Megan Baker

> Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/meganbaker

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer I @ Autodesk
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
Full-Stack position on a product-oriented team responsible for ensuring the quality of BuildingConnected’s social network data
Overhauled internal tool used for adding clients’ data into the network using React, Elasticsearch and MongoDB  to massively increase capacity to onboard new clients while reducing data duplication and manual error correction
Analyzed user-created data in Snowflake to identify and merge potential duplicates
Debugged legacy data ingestion pipelines in Airflow and AWS

### Software Engineer, Search @ Workday
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018
Wrote custom distributed processing stages in Scala with Akka Streaming to build a data ingestion pipeline from Kafka to Elasticsearch
Defined data formats and designed committing algorithm for indexer processing 20TB of data daily
Provisioned, deployed and supported Elasticsearch clusters
Wrote code to add support for multi-cluster Elasticsearch implementation
Led team scrum meetings and retrospectives; Mentored junior engineers

### Senior Associate Cloud Engineer @ Workday
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016
Designed and implemented logging solution for collection, processing, visualization and querying of log data using Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana.
Implemented data pipeline with Kafka and Zookeeper.
Lead workshop series and wrote to-the-point documentation to demonstrate how to use these tools efficiently and customize them for specific use cases.
Drastically reduced time and expertise needed to troubleshoot systems and perform root-cause analyses of bugs and failures.
Organized Tools summer internship logistics and events as part of the Tools GW Leadership Program

### Student Personnel Coordinator @ Cornell University Dean of Students
Jan 2010 – Jan 2013
- Acted as a liaison between student managers and professional staff of Willard Straight Hall Student Union by leading bi-weekly meetings with the student managers and staff. 
- Created, implemented and ensured compliance with employee policy.
- Created and maintained systems to record and store personnel data.
- Trained new employees and managers.

### Web Design and Development Intern @ Cornell Small Farms
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010
- Updated and maintained website in preparation for a re-launch on a new platform.
- Implemented media features, wrote and edited HTML and CSS.

### Undergraduate Summer Researcher @ Cornell University Lab for Elementary-Particle Physics
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Ithaca, NY
- Used C++ and special relativity formulas to mine data sets for particle mass peaks.
- Presented on research data and data simulation programs.


## Education
### Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) in Computer Science
Cornell University
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014

### Bachelor's degree in Physics, with a concentration in Computer Science
Cornell University
Jan 2009 – Jan 2013


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/megan-baker-00070552

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Last updated: 2026-03-22