Travis Gorkin
Engineering Manager at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTravis Gorkin is an engineering manager with 11 years of experience leading teams that build production-grade visualization and urban computing tools, currently heading Special Projects and Platforms at Uber and serving on the Urban Computing Foundation Technical Advisory Committee. He blends a strong product-minded engineering background—from high-scale live game operations and SDKs at Zynga to graphics and WebGL visualization work—with leadership roles at Google and as Director of Engineering in gaming. His open-source contributions to vis.gl/luma.gl reflect hands-on front-end expertise improving example sites and developer UX for a widely used WebGL toolkit. Comfortable bridging research, maps, and applied systems, he has shepherded projects that support marketplace, mapping, autonomous vehicle, and city-planning use cases. Trained in mechanical engineering (Vanderbilt) and computer graphics (Penn), he brings both low-level graphics understanding and product-driven delivery to complex visualization challenges.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.E., Mechanical Engineering, B.E., Mechanical Engineering at Vanderbilt UniversityM.S., Computer Graphics and Game Technology, M.S., Computer Graphics and Game Technology at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (7)
javascript10
website-development10
react10
gatsby9
data-visualisation9
data-visualization9
data-visualizations9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
visgl/luma.gl
Feb 2019 - Sep 2019
High-performance Toolkit for WebGL-based Data Visualization
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 21 PRs, 18 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Travis primarily contributed to the website component of the `luma.gl` repository, making updates to example pages and fixing image paths. Their work included modifying React components, updating example configurations, and integrating new examples into the website structure. They also addressed styling and layout issues on example info panels, improving the user experience.
webglwebgl2performanceuberdata-visualization
tgorkin/ComposeTestApp
Nov 2021 - Jun 2024
An Android app for testing out Jetpack Compose components on Android and Chrome OS.
Contributions:4 releases, 1 review, 12 PRs in 2 years 7 months
chrome-osjetpack-composetestingandroidcompose
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