Summary
Travis Matthews is a Senior Software Development Manager specializing in generative AI with a decade of experience building full‑stack systems, SRE practices, and developer tooling across enterprise environments. At Blue Origin he led the creation of BlueGPT and the infrastructure for LLMs and multi‑modal AI, integrating external AI services to accelerate mission‑critical workflows for human spaceflight. He combines hands‑on engineering—automation of CI/CD, GitLab-to-EKS migrations, and internal GenAI toolsets—with people leadership, mentoring and company‑wide education on GenAI. Previously at USAA he drove SRE adoption, built data and monitoring pipelines, and delivered an open-source DBT implementation for production analytics. Known for pragmatic problem solving and risk‑aware decision making, he often surfaces developer productivity gains through small operational innovations like go‑link navigation and GitLab metadata enrichment.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at The University of Texas at Arlington
Associates in Science Information Technology, Associates in Science Information Technology at Dallas College