"Changing the World" by Erica Joy Baker
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Erica Baker BiographyErica Baker is an engineer and engineering manager in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has worked at companies including Google, Slack, Patreon, and Microsoft.
Known for her outspoken support of diversity and inclusion, Baker first gained prominence in 2015 for starting an internal spreadsheet where Google employees reported their salary data to better understand pay disparities within the company. The spreadsheet was reported in The New York Times.
Baker’s career in tech began fifteen years ago, doing domain administration for the University of Alaska Statewide System, before becoming a Googler in 2006. Baker's role grew and shifted within Google, growing from Support Technician to Site Reliability Engineer. At Slack, she built the Native Client Build and Release infrastructure. She joined Patreon in 2017 where she managed the Infrastructure Engineering team. In January 2019, Baker joined Microsoft as Principal Group Engineering Manager.
Baker is on the Board of Directors for Girl Develop It, the advisory Boards for Atipica and Hack the Hood, and is a Tech Mentor for Black Girls Code. She is a founding member of Project Include, was the 2015 Level Playing Field Institute Lux Award winner, a nominee for the 2016 Crunchies Include Diversity Award, and was included in WIRED Magazine's 2016 Next List.
Most recently, she was a featured speaker for a Berkeley Center for New Media panel and Wall Street Journal's Women in the Workplace Forum both in October 2018.
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Erica Baker is an engineer and engineering manager in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has worked at companies including Google, Slack, Patreon, and Microsoft.
Known for her outspoken support of diversity and inclusion, Baker first gained prominence in 2015 for starting an internal spreadsheet where Google employees reported their salary data to better understand pay disparities within the company. The spreadsheet was reported in The New York Times.
Baker’s career in tech began fifteen years ago, doing domain administration for the University of Alaska Statewide System, before becoming a Googler in 2006. Baker's role grew and shifted within Google, growing from Support Technician to Site Reliability Engineer. At Slack, she built the Native Client Build and Release infrastructure. She joined Patreon in 2017 where she managed the Infrastructure Engineering team. In January 2019, Baker joined Microsoft as Principal Group Engineering Manager.
Baker is on the Board of Directors for Girl Develop It, the advisory Boards for Atipica and Hack the Hood, and is a Tech Mentor for Black Girls Code. She is a founding member of Project Include, was the 2015 Level Playing Field Institute Lux Award winner, a nominee for the 2016 Crunchies Include Diversity Award, and was included in WIRED Magazine's 2016 Next List.
Most recently, she was a featured speaker for a Berkeley Center for New Media panel and Wall Street Journal's Women in the Workplace Forum both in October 2018.
Contact a speaker booking agent to check availability on Erica Baker and other top speakers and celebrities.
Erica Baker is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics . The estimated speaking fee range to book Erica Baker for your event is $20,000 - $30,000. Erica Baker generally travels from San Francisco, CA, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Randi Zuckerberg, Candi Castleberry-Singleton, Y-Vonne Hutchinson, Kat Holmes and Kimberly Bryant. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Erica Baker for an upcoming live or virtual event.
Over the last year, Slack engineer Erica Baker has become a well-known advocate for diversity and inclusion in the tech industry. Although she started at Slack as a build and release engineer, her role has since evolved to include some work around diversity and inclusion.
Growing up in Alaska, Erica Baker loved playing with computers. Her father was a mechanic in the military, and Baker was drawn to putting stuff together and taking it apart...
I can’t fully remember when I first recognized that something to do with tech “diversity” efforts were a bit…off. I think it was during the first Women Techmaker’s Summit...
Erica Baker, a build and release engineer at Slack, is making waves in tech right now. She's the ex-Google employee who released employee salary data at..
Former Google engineer Erica Baker says that when she tried to expose the pay inequalities at the advertising giant, she got in trouble with management in a ...
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