Travis Cole
Senior Vice President Of Engineering at PlanetScale
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolTravis Cole is a seasoned infrastructure and engineering leader with over two decades of hands-on experience building reliable, scalable internet infrastructure across startups and public companies. He has scaled teams and systems from eight-person early-stage stacks through multiple IPOs and led platform and network engineering at Square, later directing SRE and engineering at Segment, Confluent, and PlanetScale. Travis combines technical due diligence and post-acquisition integrations with operational experience running datacenter and cloud platforms, hiring and mentoring the teams that design and operate them. Known for navigating hypergrowth, he blends pragmatic engineering processes with culture-building to keep critical systems resilient under rapid change. Based in San Francisco, he now focuses on senior leadership and advisory roles where his deep experience in scaling infrastructure and organizations provides outsized impact.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Political Science, Political Science at Western Washington University
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Github Skills (66)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
kelp/dotfiles
May 2019 - Oct 2022
Contributions:535 commits, 286 pushes, 16 branches in 3 years 5 months
kelp/arch-matebook-x-pro
Oct 2018 - May 2019
Documents my Arch Linux setup on a Huawei MateBook Pro X
Contributions:37 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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