Baker is the founder and CEO of FlightAware, a worldwide flight data and tracking company.
Baker was the head of the systems department at NeoSoft, the first Internet provider in Texas during the early 1990s.
In 2005, Baker started FlightAware, an aviation and commercial flight tracking system.
[1] He started the company with no outside investments and the business produced over a million dollars of revenue in the first 18 months.
[5] Baker is a member of the board of directors of the General Aviation Manufacturers Association and the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum.