Kenny Baker

I build the operating systems that help engineering and product organizations turn complex work into reliable execution.

Across 11+ years, I've worked in AAA game development, military simulation, live-service games, global streaming, and AWS cloud infrastructure. From EA SPORTS and Bohemia Interactive Simulations to Riot Games, Twitch, and AWS, I've repeatedly encountered the same challenge: talented teams doing important work while navigating fragmented priorities, dependencies, capacity, and decision-making.

At Twitch, I built the portfolio planning and execution systems connecting 27 engineering teams and more than 250 engineers across the IVS engineering organization. Working with 51 planning leaders, I helped improve on-time project and program delivery from under 5% to 70% over two years. At Riot, I designed the shared worksystem for 14 platform teams and roughly 150 engineers; the underlying planning and reporting practices were later adopted in varying forms by five additional platform organizations.

More recently at AWS Interactive Video Service, I've led global infrastructure modernization, customer-critical platform delivery, and security and compliance initiatives, while using AI-assisted analysis to reconcile portfolio information and model delivery constraints. Much of that work comes down to making technical constraints, organizational priorities, and tradeoffs clear enough for leaders to make confident decisions.

I've learned that good governance isn't about creating another reporting layer. It's about giving teams clarity, helping leaders make better decisions, and making it easier for people to do ambitious work together. That's the kind of problem I enjoy solving.I help engineering organizations scale.