Travis Smith
President at MacKay CEO Forums: CEO & Executive Peer Support
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolTravis Smith is a seasoned technology entrepreneur and president with 11 years formally counted experience and a career in web and digital media stretching back to the 1990s, leading purpose-driven agencies and civic organizations from Vancouver. As founder of Hop Studios (a B Corp) he designs, builds and maintains sites across multiple CMS platforms and advises clients on branding, API integrations and community features. He brings executive leadership to OpenMedia.org as elected board president, blending technical product experience with digital rights advocacy and nonprofit governance. As CTO at Emonance AI he is exploring humane AI collaborations, pairing practical web engineering with emerging AI-driven experiences. A former newsroom and product lead at Variety and the Los Angeles Times, he has deep expertise in launching high-traffic publishing platforms and monetization features. He also teaches and organizes community learning (ExpressionEngine Roadshow, university instruction), underscoring a long-standing commitment to knowledge-sharing and practical skill transfer.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Journalism, B.A. Journalism at University of Southern CaliforniaStrathcona-Tweedsmuir School
English, French, German
Stackoverflow
359reputation
41kreached
1answer
6questions
Github Skills (24)
cms10
user-guide10
php10
expressionengine10
content-management-system9
content-management9
open-source8
google-plus6
double6
coding-style6
database6
duplicates6
apple-news6
accordion6
animation6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nep/ExpressionEngine-User-Guide
Mar 2019 - Mar 2025
The source for the HTML ExpressionEngine user guides found at https://docs.expressionengine.com
Contributions:4 PRs, 31 pushes, 17 branches in 6 years 1 month
expressionengine
nep/shorteen
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:4 pushes in 1 day
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