Summary
Travis Mccauley is a software development manager with 14 years of experience leading cross-functional teams across startups, philanthropy, higher education and corporate settings, now managing engineering at CineSend in Toronto. He blends hands-on full-stack engineering—from infrastructure and data pipelines to APIs and front-end views—with coaching and product partnership to deliver user-centered, accessible solutions. At BenchSci he led data pipeline squads and introduced rotating scrum masters to scale delivery cadence and team ownership while building ontological datasets for a next-gen platform. His technical breadth includes Python, BigQuery, Apache Beam, Scala microservices, React/TypeScript front ends and Kubernetes, and he repeatedly restructures teams and tooling to meet ambitious timelines. Travis is notable for pairing engineering rigor with empathy—removing PII risk at CZI and championing observable, secure infrastructure—so teams ship robust, extensible code that performs at scale.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Institute of Buddhist Dialectics
B.A. Religious Studies, B.A. Religious Studies at University of Virginia
Tibetan, Chinese