👾Travis Johnson

Software Engineer

Boston, MA, USA13 yrs 7 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Expert in creating psychologically safe work environments.
  • Strong focus on education and team communication.
  • Extensive experience in reliability engineering and DevOps.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned SRE with a focus on DevOps in the SaaS industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

KubernetesAmazon Web Services (aws)Cloud SecurityDevopsReliability EngineeringLeadership

Other Skills

Agile DevelopmentAmazon Relational Database Service (RDS)AnsibleApacheBashBitbucketC/C++Continuous Delivery (CD)GitGitHubGoHTMLIncident ManagementJSONJava

About

I love what I do, and I love enabling the people around me to love what they do too. I'm also pretty good at it but I don't think that's as important. I'm a career SRE, taking the "Linux System Administrator adds more code to their work" approach I expanded my scope to the application level; stopping just short of User Interfaces (design work still confuses me... except maybe Terminal Interfaces). As I did this I thought more and more broadly about how to ensure products are built reliably; this led to a stronger and stronger focus on education, and facilitating communication within, and between, engineering teams. Now, almost my entire focus is on psychological safety; creating an environment that helps people feel comfortable taking risks. For a better explanation I highly recommend reading about Project Aristotle and I'll quote one thing from that page: "Psychological safety refers to an individual’s *perception* of the consequences of taking an interpersonal risk" (emphasis mine) https://rework.withgoogle.com/print/guides/5721312655835136/ I do this through many means, some "mechanical" (i.e. good and fast CI/CD reduces the stress and impact of experimentation), and some social (being head of an IT department makes for many opportunities to gain (and lose) user trust). Above all else I make sure my team and my coworkers understand that I put them first; above my boss, and above the company. The choice between your employees and the company is a false one; there is no company without its employees. In the businesses where I've worked the only true company assets have been the people building and running everything; make them *want* to be there, and let them show you what they can do. I want to change the world, but I haven't quite figured out how yet; for now I've found I can make things better for the people near me, and that feels pretty nice. Those seem like the relevant parts: travis@thisguy.codes The beautiful fluff in the picture is Cloud, and yes he's a good boy :)

Experience

Babylist

Senior Software Engineer, Platform

Sep 2023 – Oct 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo · United States · Remote

KubernetesAmazon Web Services (AWS)TerraformIncident ManagementContinuous Delivery (CD)

Marqeta

Principal Security Engineer

Jul 2022 – May 2023 · 10 mos · New York, New York, United States · Remote

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)GitHubKubernetesAmazon Web Services (AWS)Continuous Delivery (CD)Leadership+3

Ocrolus

2 roles

TechOps Manager

Feb 2021 – Jun 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Five facilities in two countries with 20+ department members supporting 1200+ users.
  • Asset management, break-fix support, CCTV systems, physical & logical access control, network security infrastructure, and monitoring. Our team runs k8s, and does the legwork so devs can still run Linux.
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)GitHubBitbucketContinuous Delivery (CD)AnsibleLeadership+4

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Oct 2019 – Feb 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, Golang, Python, Java, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Ubiquiti, AWS
  • something with PDFs and banks idk
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)GitHubBitbucketContinuous Delivery (CD)AnsibleLeadership+4

Imagen technologies

Lead Systems Engineer

Dec 2018 – Sep 2019 · 9 mos · Greater New York City Area

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)GitHubContinuous Delivery (CD)LeadershipCloud SecurityReliability Engineering+2

Peloton interactive

Sr. SRE

Feb 2018 – Nov 2018 · 9 mos · New York, New York

  • Part of the team responsible for infrastructure, orchestration, build/deploy pipeline, developer workflow, and inter-team communication/architecture.
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)GitHubContinuous Delivery (CD)LeadershipReliability EngineeringAgile Development+1

Liquidsky software, inc.

Head of NetOps | Master of Machines

Mar 2017 – Jan 2018 · 10 mos · New York, New York

  • Direct ownership of both Virtualized (AWS) and bare metal (IBM as well as Co-location) infrastructure for providing high bandwidth direct-to-consumer streaming gaming computers. Immediate point of contact for vendor relationships. Providing direction on system design and orchestration, managing a growing team around building automation and tools to keep fires from spreading and enable developers to stay productive without breaking things.
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)GitHubLeadershipReliability EngineeringAgile DevelopmentDevOps

True[x]

Devops Engineer

Jan 2016 – Mar 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos · Greater Los Angeles Area

  • Created fully automated Jenkins, including CD of Jenkins itself, and automatic integration of new repositories (new projects added with no changes). Lead design process of new infrastructure, including a rewrite of chef 10 into chef 12, CD for company AMIs, 'codification' of architecture, and migration from "management" to "tools" philosophy; while supporting new features on existing infrastructure. Large usage of DynamoDB and custom evented ruby application handling thousands of requests a second.
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)GitHubContinuous Delivery (CD)Reliability EngineeringAgile DevelopmentDevOps

Zefr

2 roles

SRE

Mar 2015 – Dec 2015 · 9 mos

  • Supported integration testing framework across multiple products. Implemented configuration management solutions to reduce operational overhead for new features. Rearchitected applications to be tolerant of hardware or platform failures, and allow for self healing. Implemented A/B deployment with zero down time.
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)GitHubContinuous Delivery (CD)AnsibleReliability EngineeringAgile Development+1

Software Engineer

Apr 2014 – Feb 2015 · 10 mos

  • Full stack development working on internal tools interfacing with AdWords API's. Utilizing technologies such as: Heroku, Flask, Lettuce, AngularJS, Jenkins, and Selenium.
  • Built out and maintained a testing and continuous integration platform based on Jenkins, Lettuce, and a custom Selenium wrapper. Full stack developer working with a small team on a campaign management tool operating on top of AdWords. Focus on interaction with services and databases to ensure predictable behavior.
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)GitHubContinuous Delivery (CD)AnsibleReliability EngineeringAgile Development+1

Thefirehoseproject

Code Mentor

Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 · 3 yrs

  • Work one on one with students on a weekly basis teaching all aspects of web development. Covering MVC fundamentals, iterative and recursive algorithms, dynamic programming, and object orientation. A focus on highlighting the differences between some languages, and emphasising the portable components.
GitHub

Nutraclick

2 roles

Business Intelligence Developer

Jan 2014 – Apr 2014 · 3 mos · Boston, MA

  • Own entire stack of department's tech. Design and maintain ETL processes to assist in data analysis. Design import processes to allow machine readable access to third party vendor data in as close to real time as possible
DevOps

System Administrator

Jan 2013 – Dec 2013 · 11 mos · Boston, MA

  • Monitor, maintain, and support a diverse set of leading edge technologies running production websites and analytics. Provide insight to help solve issues with scalability, redundancy, distribution, and development processes. Create data transformation processes for analytics and reconciliation.
DevOps

Support.com

Personal Technology Expert

Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 · 1 yr

  • Remote support, virus and malware removal, PC repair, software installation, hardware setup, general tech support.

Manpowergroup

Associate

May 2011 – Jan 2012 · 8 mos · Woburn, MA

  • Work with industrial strength chemicals, cleaning and maintaining vehicles for local public transportation and taxi services.

Landry's restaurants

Bus boy

Jan 2011 – May 2011 · 4 mos · Burlington, MA

  • Clean and clear tables at a fast pace in a demanding work environment.

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