Travis Walter
Senior Software Engineer at Automattic
Earth, Texas, United States
Summary
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RockstarTravis Walter is a senior software engineer and team lead with over a decade of full‑stack experience building scalable, high‑throughput systems and end‑to‑end products from the ground up. He’s proficient in Node.js, TypeScript, React and PHP, and has shipped REST APIs, data layers, mobile apps, and Solidity smart contracts for Web3 experiments. At Automattic he owned complex, revenue‑impacting backend services and led a distributed engineering team that improved marketer autonomy and reduced churn. He contributes to notable open source front‑end work, including changes to Automattic’s wp‑calypso repository around checkout, analytics, and media UX. A lifelong learner with an entrepreneurial streak, he combines hands‑on coding with product sensibility from founding multiple startups and freelance work. He often pairs pragmatic engineering (Redis, Docker, serverless) with curiosity about emerging NFT and blockchain use cases.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
php, android, java, bash, javascript, solidity, English, Spanish
Github Skills (9)
html10
css10
javascript10
react10
google-analytics9
redux9
s69
nodejs8
wordpress7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/wp-calypso
Jul 2017 - Apr 2022
The JavaScript and API powered WordPress.com
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:157 reviews, 56 commits, 182 PRs in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Travis primarily contributed to the front-end of the WordPress.com Calypso project, making various changes to React components. They removed code related to legacy testing, disabled an A/B test, and modified the display of media storage limits. Additionally, the user implemented Google Analytics Enhanced Ecommerce tracking, including purchase event tracking. Furthermore, the user made changes to plan features, the checkout process, and pricing display, focusing on user interface and experience.
javascriptwordpressreactes6es6-javascript
Neon-Nacho-Labs/neon-nacho-labs
Jun 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:25 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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