Aaron Travis
CEO Co-Founder Karus Inc. at Karus, Inc.
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Travis is a serial founder and CEO based in the San Francisco Bay Area with seven years focused on building tokenization and blockchain-driven financial infrastructure. As Co-Founder and CEO of Karus Inc. and former COO of Vaultbank/tokenvault, he blends deep fintech and capital markets experience with hands-on startup leadership to create platforms for issuing and trading tokenized financial instruments. His background includes founding and scaling companies through acquisition (Random Forest Capital → Franklin Templeton) and senior roles across trading and business development at firms from Wells Fargo to CircleUp. Comfortable at the intersection of markets, product, and strategy, he brings institutional trading rigor to decentralized finance use cases. Notably, he pairs a pragmatic investor-trader mindset with an entrepreneurial drive to "try to do something in life," translating market knowledge into novel distributed applications.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BS Finance, BS Finance at Georgetown UniversityBS Finance, BS Finance at Cherry Creek High School
Github Skills (165)
expressjs10
github10
python10
http10
javascript-framework10
overhead10
pullrequest10
backend10
schema10
fastify10
javascript10
type-inference10
nodejs-server10
hapi10
digitalocean10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
aarontravass/Simple-Express.js-server-with-handlebars
May 2020 - Mar 2024
Contributions:9 PRs, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
aarontravass/az-queue-consumer
Jul 2023 - Jul 2024
Lightweight Azure Queue Consumer
Contributions:8 releases, 14 PRs, 40 pushes in 11 months
azurenodejstypescript
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