Travis Brimhall
Lead Software Engineer
Hello!I'm Travis 👋🏻
I'm a Lead Software Engineer with a unique blend of technical leadership and product development expertise. Currently, I'm leading a team of 6 engineers and collaborating with design to deliver innovative solutions in the oil and gas sector.
My strength lies in bridging the gap between technical excellence and user needs, actively engaging with stakeholders to ensure our products truly serve their purpose while maintaining high engineering standards.
Below you'll find details about my experience in engineering leadership, product development, and technical execution. Feel free to download my resume for a complete overview of my background.
Work History
Lead Software Engineer
July 2023 - Present1.5 years- Leading a team of 6 engineers and collaborating with design to deliver innovative solutions in the oil and gas sector, with a dual focus on technical leadership and product development.
- Responsible for stewarding product development through active user engagement while maintaining technical excellence, ensuring our solutions effectively address real user needs in the field.
Senior Software Engineer
August 2022 - June 202311 months- Go Autonomous is a small, early-stage startup focused on B2B AI order processing, and I joined during a time of explosive growth. I was the lead engineer responsible for developing and hosting of the frontend application.
- While shipping new features at a rapid pace I also introduced tools to help mature the platform such as feature toggles, user experience tracking, grafana dashboards, and global state management.
Senior Software Engineer
June 2019 - June 20223 years- At the end of my tenure at OpenTable, I was the tech lead for the company’s premiere B2B solution for restaurants on the web.
- We were a small, high-velocity team that focused on delivering features for a global user base, in collaboration with iOS and Android engineers. We tracked user experiences in order to deliver insights to the Product team, and quickly iterate on our solutions.
- As a full stack team, we owned multiple services used organization-wide managed a migration from mesos to kubernetes during my tenure.
Software Engineer II
October 2017 - June 20191 year, 9 months
- At KAYAK, I was on the team building and maintaining the company’s flagship products: the flights and hotels search results pages.
- I developed features with a wide variety of technologies including Angular 1, Angular 2+, React and Java. We maintained a strong culture of A/B testing in development and worked closely with Product and Design to iterate on results to improve the user experience.
Front-End Engineer
November 2016 - October 20171 year- EasyPractice is Denmark’s leading appointment management software solution for small businesses such as therapists and salons. I was hired to transition the product to a new stack, consisting of VueJS together with PHP and Laravel.
Education
Associate Degree in Computer Science
Graduated 2016 - Graduated at the top of the class with a focus on software development and product engineering.
Master of Letters in Modern European History
Graduated 2010 - Graduated with Honors. Master's thesis focused on Spain's transition to democracy during the 1970s.
Bachelor of Arts in Education & History
Graduated 2007 - Graduated Cum Laude with a focus on secondary education and social sciences.