Austin Baker
About
Austin Baker is a Lead Data Engineer at Fifth Third Bank, where he leads his team in delivering data engineering initiatives that power the bank's Treasury functions. His work supports funds transfer pricing (FTP), asset and liability management (ALM), liquidity management, economic capital modeling, capital planning, collateral management, and investment operations, along with the regulatory and financial reporting that depend on them.
Austin specializes in architecting governed, auditable, and performant data pipelines that modernize legacy processes and strengthen the reliability of enterprise risk and treasury analytics. He is passionate about turning complex financial data into trusted, decision-ready insights.
He holds a B.S. from Miami University (2021), where he double-majored in Information Systems and Business Economics, and an M.S. in Data Analytics with a concentration in Data Engineering from Western Governors University (2026). Austin brings a practical, business-focused perspective to solving today's most demanding data engineering challenges.