Travis Thieman
Staff Software Engineer at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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RockstarTravis Thieman is a Staff Software Engineer in New York with 13 years of experience building reliable back-end systems and developer tooling, currently at Datadog. He brings deep practical knowledge of compilers and language tooling—having contributed bug fixes and analyzer-driven refactors to the high-profile ClojureScript compiler—alongside strong cloud and DevOps experience improving AWS-driven PaaS behavior and resiliency. Comfortable across the stack, he has shipped scheduler systems in Python, engineered performant ECS/CloudWatch integrations, and polished front-end UX with webcam and upload features for consumer-facing projects. Colleagues rely on him to bridge runtime correctness, observability, and operational robustness, and his work shows a pattern of pragmatic fixes that improve long-running system behavior and developer experience.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (32)
javascript10
webcam10
amazon-ecs10
python10
clojure-cli10
object-oriented-programming10
clojure10
compiler-design10
go10
sqlalchemy10
aws10
aws-ecs10
functional-programming10
paas10
job-scheduling10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
thieman/dagobah
May 2013 - Mar 2018
Simple DAG-based job scheduler in Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:235 commits, 19 PRs, 11 pushes in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Travis's contributions primarily revolve around implementing core features and functionalities for a DAG-based job scheduler written in Python. They have focused on building the foundational classes, including Task, Job, and Dagobah, and implementing methods for adding tasks, scheduling jobs using cron expressions, and managing job states. Their work also extends to the backend, with a focus on serialization, deserialization and persisting job data. They also introduced an SQLite database backend to store data and added a basic web UI.
dagjob-schedulerpython
thieman/github-selfies
Mar 2014 - Jul 2020
Everything is better with selfies. Yes, even pull requests. Trust me.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:96 commits, 21 PRs, 26 pushes in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Travis primarily focused on enhancing the front-end functionality of the GitHub selfies project. They implemented features to add a selfie button, integrated webcam functionality, and handled image uploads to Imgur. The commits also included improvements to the user interface, adding features to hide or show elements, and styling adjustments for a better user experience. Additionally, the user addressed several bugs and issues, contributing to a more polished and user-friendly application.
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