Travis Swicegood
Chief Technology Officer at Managing Up
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTravis Swicegood is a seasoned technology leader and current CTO with 18 years of experience building scalable web, mobile, and AI-powered systems. He leads a 50+ engineering organization that ships image-recognition products processing millions of transactions monthly and has driven product launches that produced $1M+ ARR and tens of millions in pipeline. A hands-on builder who rose from developer to VP and CTO, he combines deep technical chops—contributing to prominent open-source projects like conda and Werkzeug—with pragmatic cost and cloud-architecture optimizations that saved over $1M annually. He excels at translating between executives, product, designers, and engineers to turn ambiguous problems into executable roadmaps and measurable outcomes. Known for blending design thinking with engineering rigor, he makes AI the default way of working across organizations while keeping infrastructure growth sub-linear to results. Outside of process and product, he still enjoys the team rituals that matter—bringing donuts and tacos and prioritizing team success above all.
18 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (75)
url-routing10
conda-build10
facebook-api10
python10
package-management10
testing10
command-line-interface10
gdal10
bash10
subprocess10
backbonejs10
backbone10
environmental10
javascript10
bokeh10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Bash-it/bash-it
Feb 2011 - Apr 2020
A community Bash framework.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:236 commits, 47 PRs, 47 pushes in 9 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Travis primarily contributed to the doubletime theme, enhancing the user's bash environment. Their work includes adding features to customize the prompt, such as host and virtual environment information, and customizing the look and feel. Furthermore, the user added the ability to show ruby and python versions in the prompt with color formatting. Finally, they improved the theming system, enabling optional aliases and plugins.
bash-promptbash-completionbash-configurationproductivitybash-framework
django-ses/django-ses
Feb 2012 - Sep 2014
A Django email backend for Amazon's Simple Email Service
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:34 commits in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Travis primarily focused on enhancing the Django-SES email backend. Their contributions include adding testing infrastructure with `runtests.py`, incorporating documentation compatible with Pycco, and refactoring settings and tests. The user also addressed versioning updates, and fixed backend functionalities. The user's work significantly improved the project's testability, documentation, and overall maintainability.
pythondjango-frameworkdjangoamazonemail
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