Travis Ricks
Engineering Manager at Zaiko
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolTravis Ricks is an engineering manager based in Tokyo with 11 years of experience blending front-end engineering, product management and design. He leads cross-functional teams to modernize legacy sites and build new, performant, accessible frontends using Vue/Nuxt and React Native while also overseeing backend work in Laravel/PHP. His background in startup product leadership and running a digital agency means he’s comfortable as the main client contact, mentor to junior engineers and steward of product direction. He’s taught beginner programmers and managed mobile development teams in Japanese-speaking environments, bringing rare fluency in both technical mentorship and bilingual collaboration. Expect a design-minded engineering leader who values reusable component architecture and measurable site performance.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Immersive Bootcamp, Software Engineering, Immersive Bootcamp, Software Engineering at Code ChrysalisBachelor of Arts - BA, Bachelor of Arts - BA at Michigan State UniversityJapanese, Japanese at Coto Japanese Academy - Language School Tokyo and YokohamaLansing Community CollegeMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Marketing, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Marketing at Central Michigan UniversityRingling College of Art and DesignJapanese Language, Japanese Language at KCP地球市民日本語学校 / KCP International Japanese Language School
Japanese, English
Github Skills (114)
http10
mobile-web10
web-development10
backend10
fundamentals10
javascript10
single-page10
html10
photoshop10
documentation10
css10
open-source10
bull9
laravel9
web-developer9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
thesnews/tsn-interactives
Dec 2015 - May 2018
Contributions:25 PRs, 44 pushes, 13 branches in 2 years 5 months
travisricks/travisricks.com
Apr 2015 - Jan 2021
🐯Personal Website
Contributions:14 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 9 months
reactnextjs
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