Travis Gockel
Senior System Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolTravis Gockel is a Senior System Software Engineer based in Boulder, Colorado with 14 years building low-level, distributed systems and storage software. He has shipped production-grade C++ across startups and enterprises—from founding a streaming database to driving system software for autonomous vehicle simulation at NVIDIA. Known as the go-to "C++ guy," he pairs deep systems thinking with practical engineering, contributing to open-source distributed storage like a Dynamo clone (Voldemort) where he improved client stability and correctness. His background spans networking, SSD-backed data layers, and software-defined networking, giving him a rare end-to-end view of data paths from kernel-adjacent code to distributed services. Colleagues rely on him to translate ambiguous system requirements into robust, maintainable implementations while keeping a touch of humor in the process.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
English, c++
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Github Skills (28)
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
voldemort/voldemort
Jul 2014 - Aug 2014
An open source clone of Amazon's Dynamo.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits in 2 days
Contributions summary:Travis primarily focused on implementing and maintaining the C++ client library for Voldemort. Their contributions include adding prefixes to include guards to minimize conflicts, refactoring code to use `const` correctness, and improving error messages using `boost::format`. They also made changes to the `VersionedValue` class and various store implementations, enhancing the overall functionality and stability of the client. This work demonstrates a strong understanding of the project's underlying data storage mechanisms and client-side interactions.
reactnosqltransactionalamazonbig-data
tgockel/json-voorhees
Feb 2012 - Apr 2022
A killer modern C++ library for interacting with JSON.
Contributions:11 releases, 818 commits, 84 PRs in 10 years 3 months
cppc-plus-plusjsonjson-serialization
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