Travis Weston
Senior Software Developer at Alley
Canaan, Maine, United States
Summary
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SeniorTravis Weston is a Senior Software Developer with 11 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining web platforms, currently leading client-facing technical work at Alley while mentoring teams in clean code and TDD. He combines backend engineering and QA discipline—demonstrated by contributions to the widely used Laravel framework, where he improved HTTP client testing and request-order assertions—with full-stack fixes in JavaScript projects like the game A Dark Room. At Bangor Daily News he progressed from developer to IT manager, standardizing version control, automating billing workflows, and refactoring legacy PHP into a cloud-hosted Laravel app. He routinely balances day-to-day coding with technical leadership: running client calls, triaging ticket backlogs, pair programming, and running code reviews for multiple concurrent clients. Based in rural Canaan, Maine, he brings a pragmatic, tooling-first approach to reliability and developer education, frequently participating in open source to raise testing and maintainability standards. Colleagues rely on him for practical architectural guidance and steady execution across both greenfield features and long-lived legacy systems.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
English
Stackoverflow
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66kreached
34answers
10questions
Github Skills (22)
application-framework10
debug10
javascript10
laravel-mix10
testing10
app-framework10
laravel10
phpunit10
http-client10
php10
web-framework10
game-development10
code-readability10
front-end-development9
performance-optimization9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
doublespeakgames/adarkroom
Jul 2014 - Feb 2015
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:37 commits, 9 PRs, 25 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Travis primarily focused on bug fixes and code improvements in the Javascript-based game, "A Dark Room". They addressed a memory usage issue in the notification system by optimizing the removal of hidden notifications. Further contributions included fixing whitespace conformity across multiple Javascript files, including `Engine.js`, `events.js`, `localization.js`, `outside.js`, `path.js`, `room.js`, `space.js`, `state_manager.js`, `world.js`, `encounters.js`, and `global.js`, improving code readability and consistency. They also fixed an unclosed curly bracket and addressed an issue with button updates.
gameminimalistroomdarktext-adventure
laravel/framework
Dec 2020 - Dec 2020
The Laravel Framework.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 3 days
Contributions summary:Travis focused on enhancing the testing capabilities of the Laravel framework's HTTP client. They implemented a new feature to assert the order of HTTP requests and added tests to ensure its proper functionality. Furthermore, they added tests to verify that the assertion fails under the correct conditions. These contributions improve the robustness of the framework by making it easier to test the order of HTTP requests.
laravel-frameworklaravelphpframework
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