Haaken Baldwin

I'm Haaken, a software engineer based in Southern California. I'm currently a Senior Software Engineer at Linkedin, where I'm working on tooling and infrastructure to support the use of Golang. In my free time, I contribute to open source (I currently have over 1k stars on Github), lift weights, hike, play video games, and manage my rental property.

Writing

Work

  1. Company
    LinkedIn
    Role
    Senior Software Engineer (Golang)
    Date
  2. Company
    LinkedIn
    Role
    Site Reliability Engineer (Traffic)
    Date
  3. Company
    Wealthfront
    Role
    DevOps Engineer
    Date
  4. Company
    Plato
    Role
    Devops Engineer/Software Engineer
    Date

Projects

  • Next-generation ACG Video Website

    A video site for anime, comics, and games. I wrote the whole backend (in Go), supporting: JWT-based authentication, video uploads and transcoding, video fuzzy search and sorting, ML-based video recommendations, video comments, user profiles, etc.

  • Craftzone

    A Minecraft server-hosting SAAS written in React/Next + Golang with Stripe for payments, OAuth from Discord/Google, and K3s for Minecraft server scheduling. Robust (and growing) mod support.

  • Video Download Manager

    A multiuser frontend around yt-dlp and fully-functional video-hosting website written in Golang and React/Next, supporting video downloads from hundreds of websites. 800+ stars on Github.

  • Homelab

    My homelab, in a 15U Startech rack. Featuring two Poweredge 730s (both running Proxmox), a basic switch + router, and UPS. 4U NAS build coming soon!

Philosophy