Travis Petersen
Staff Software Engineer at ShelterTech
Pasadena, California, United States
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Top SchoolTravis Petersen is a Staff Software Engineer based in Pasadena with eight years of experience building reliable, scalable web and AI-enabled systems across the full stack. He blends hands-on engineering in JavaScript/TypeScript, Ruby, and Elixir with cloud-native patterns (AWS, CI/CD, distributed architectures) and modern ML tooling like OpenAI and Pinecone for RAG solutions. Travis has led projects from AI-powered features to large-scale data model improvements while mentoring engineers and shaping technical strategy. He favors clean architecture and pragmatic trade-offs that prioritize long-term maintainability and operational resilience. A former post-production coordinator, he brings uncommon production discipline and cross-team coordination skills to software delivery. He volunteers technical time at ShelterTech, reflecting a commitment to using engineering to solve real-world problems.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Software Development, Software Development at Flatiron SchoolBachelor of Arts - BA Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts - BA Philosophy at UC Santa BarbaraPhysics Mathematics Computer Science, Physics Mathematics Computer Science at Santa Monica CollegeA.A. Philosophy Music, A.A. Philosophy Music at Los Angeles Pierce College
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Github Skills (21)
rep10
herokuapp10
mean-stack10
mean10
social-network-analysis9
react8
discourse8
webapp7
typescript7
nextjs7
backend7
angular7
mongodb6
nodejs5
in-progress5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
tpetersen0308/http-server
May 2019 - Jul 2019
A basic HTTP server written in java.
Contributions:30 PRs, 89 pushes, 16 branches in 1 month
javahttp-serverserver
tpetersen0308/birdable
Aug 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:57 pushes, 5 branches in 6 months
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