Summary
Travis Hairfield is an AI Engineer and founder with 11 years of experience building production software across utilities, genomics, social media, and real estate. He is fluent in TypeScript, Go, Python, and Ruby and has shipped products using Django, React, and Rails while leading teams and mentoring junior engineers. As founder of ANYK he’s building an LLM-powered learning game that generates all content dynamically, blending product design with applied generative AI. His background includes engineering and management roles at Forward and Opendoor where he drove API design, performance optimization, and cross-service orchestration. Trained in both physics and computer science, he brings a rigorous, experimental mindset from lab work and early startup hustling to modern ML systems. Based in Oakland, he seeks product teams that delight users and welcomes opportunities to translate complex systems into delightful experiences.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Physics and Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Physics and Computer Science at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
English, Spanish