Mike Travers
Independent Consultant at Hyperphor
Pacifica, California, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolMike Travers is an independent consultant and software engineer with over 25 years designing complex user interfaces and knowledge-rich systems, and 17 years of professional experience in industry roles. He specializes in knowledge representation, end-user programming, and scientific information management, having led projects from medical diagnostic expert systems to spatial visualizers for large knowledge bases like Cyc. Mike has driven engineering and architecture at organizations including Parker Institute, Nuna, and Quixey, consistently translating domain complexity into usable tools that let people think and work smarter. A longtime proponent of semantic web and data integration, he builds platforms that bridge data quality, APIs, and human-centered UIs for scientists and clinicians. Based in Pacifica, CA, he combines an MIT background in computer science and media arts with hands-on Clojure work on GitHub under the hyperphor handle, reflecting both deep research roots and practical product delivery.
17 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
PhD MS Media Arts and Sciences Computer Science, PhD MS Media Arts and Sciences Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
English
Github Skills (117)
trello10
collaboration10
markdown10
clojure10
knowledge-management10
knowledge-graph10
closure10
git10
graph10
scheme10
org-mode10
privacy10
clojurescript10
javascript9
plot9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
mtravers/wuwei
Nov 2010 - Jan 2018
WuWei -- effortless Ajax web UIs from Common Lisp
Contributions:157 commits, 5 pushes, 1 comment in 7 years 3 months
schemesolidworksweb-applicationlisp-interpreterlisp
ParkerICI/blockoid
May 2020 - Aug 2022
A lightweight Clojurescript wrapper around Blockly
Contributions:1 review, 3 commits, 3 PRs in 2 years 3 months
clojureclojurescriptblockly
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.