Summary
Travis Bumgarner is a Principal Software Engineer based in Boston with 11 years of experience building reliable, user-focused web applications and developer tools. He blends hands-on frontend and full-stack expertise (React, TypeScript, GraphQL, AWS) with product leadership, having led teams, shipped mission-critical systems like a 1.6M-search-per-month engine, and delivered high-reliability recording and collaborative viewing features. As a founder and consultant he has taken products from zero to closed alpha and launched hardware-focused education kits via Kickstarter, demonstrating an unusual mix of software, hardware, and go-to-market chops. He prioritizes measurable impact—raising team health scores and dramatically speeding feature performance—while also cultivating security practices across organizations. Outside product work he documents his engineering and photography portfolios, signaling a design-minded approach and curiosity beyond code.
11 years of coding experience