Travis Crawford
Principal Software Engineer at PagerDuty
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolTravis Crawford is a Principal Software Engineer with 16 years of experience building resilient developer platforms and operational tooling, now shaping PagerDuty’s AI-driven automation and incident management vision. Previously a Senior Staff Engineer at Slack, he led internal tools, deploy and CI systems, and helped dramatically shrink and speed up Slack’s primary monorepo and platform workflows. He brings deep SRE and backend expertise from roles at Google, Apple, Twitter, and Medium, and contributes to open-source projects like the widely used Pants build system, improving CI/CD, Python build configs, and contributor onboarding. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, he blends hands-on engineering, platform design, and developer experience advocacy to make complex systems simpler and more productive. Notably, he pairs production-scale operational insight with a knack for developer-focused UX in tooling rather than just libraries.
16 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Rochester Institute of Technology
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
configuration-management10
build-tools10
build-system10
python10
documentation9
cicd8
java7
javas7
go7
protobuffer6
protobuf6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
pantsbuild/pants
Mar 2014 - Aug 2018
The Pants Build System
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:27 commits, 17 PRs, 59 comments in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Travis primarily contributed to the Pants build system by implementing and improving developer documentation, adding configuration options, and fixing setup issues. They focused on refining the build process and making it easier to use and contribute to, with an emphasis on Python and build configuration. Their work included improving the CI/CD scripts, supporting new features such as Thrifty and google-java-format, and addressing issues related to setup and installation of the build tool.
pythonprotobufaws-lambdapantsshell
apache/hcatalog
Jun 2012 - Feb 2013
Mirror of Apache HCatalog
Contributions:91 commits in 7 months
apachebig-datahcatalogapache-flinkjava
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