Ashley Baker

Overview

Senior Backend Engineer at HubSpot, focused on payments infrastructure. Built the experimentation framework 39 product teams use to ship changes safely. Before that: Wayfair and Tesla. Most at home with Go and Java. Former debater; now I argue with spreadsheets.

Experience

1. Senior Backend Engineer

   Feb 2024 - Present
   HubSpot · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Seattle, WA
   • Grew the payments platform team from 6 to 32 engineers.
   • Designed the reconciliation system that matches 4 million transactions a day.
   • Cut p99 latency on the payments platform services from 566ms to 138ms.
2. Backend Engineer

   Sep 2021 - Feb 2024
   Wayfair · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Seattle, WA
   • Moved 95% of payments platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
3. Backend Engineer

   Aug 2019 - Sep 2021
   Tesla · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Seattle, WA
   • Shipped 17 launches on the payments platform team without a rollback.
   • Designed the reconciliation system that matches 2 million transactions a day.
4. Backend Engineer

   Oct 2017 - Aug 2019
   Twilio · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Seattle, WA
   • Wrote the PostgreSQL service that now handles 18 million requests a day.

Projects

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Education

1. Arizona State University

   BS, Electronics and Communication
   2013 - 2017