Travis Grathwell

Code for America

March 2017 - Present

• GetCalFresh
  • Maintained online SNAP (food stamps) application receiving ~3000 daily incoming applications for assistance across California.
  • Built and maintained Selenium scripts that forwarded SNAP application data to more than six different county systems.
• GetYourRefund
  • Enhanced and maintained online application receiving ~1000 daily incoming applications for VITA tax assistance across the country.
  • Built a different online application (GetCTC) for low-income Child Tax Credit recipients receiving ~6000 daily incoming applications (peak of 20k)
  • Built and maintained a Java service that filed GetCTC clients' taxes using the IRS Modernized e-File system.
• Ruby on Rails, Selenium
• TDD with Capybara
• Deployment on Aptible, previously AWS with Ansible/Terraform
• Messaging with Twilio and Mailgun
• Client support with Intercom, previously with Zendesk
• Monitoring with Datadog and Sentry

Pivotal Labs

March 2012 - March 2017

• Consulted on over 15 projects, ranging in duration from two weeks to nine months
  • Building the frontend for a unique e-commerce website from scratch (Angular 1)
  • Building a job board website for contract workers in a large corporation (React)
  • Re-writing the billing functionality for a subscription sports website from scratch (Angular 1 / Rails)
  • Adding shopping cart functionality to a t-shirt website that was lacking it (Rails / React)
  • 3 months iterating on a redesign for the web version of a popular CAD tool (Angular 1)
  • 6 months rewriting a Flex application in Angular 1
• Backendy stuff with Ruby/Rails, and a little bit of Java Spring now and then.
• Frontendy stuff with React, Angular 1, Backbone, Ember and some Angular 2
• Six months of increasingly out of date iOS experience
• TDD with Jasmine / RSpec / Capybara
• Pair Programming all day every day

Aruba Networks / AirWave Wireless

September 2008 - November 2011

• Worked on the AirWave Management Platform, a web application for managing large deployments of Wireless Access Points.
• Converted the existing frameset-based application into a single-page AJAX-heavy HTML5 web application that used the Google Closure JavaScript framework.
• Designed and optimized reports that aggregated large amounts (5 minute intervals over a 1 month duration) of wireless client data to calculate statistics such as bandwidth usage.
• Implemented complex designs to allow configuration of the myriad bells and whistles in modern Wireless Access Points while maintaining consistency using both client-side (JS) and server-side (Perl) validation.
• Extreme Programming environment with pair programming, agile project planning, and automated testing.
• Perl, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML5, PostgreSQL, Selenium, a little bit of Flex/AS3

Blinkx

April 2007 - May 2008

• Wrote spider scripts to ingest videos and associated metadata from XML feeds and unstructured HTML sources
• Developed and maintained perl scripts responsible for checking 1 million links a day and transcoding 150,000 videos a day.
• Wrote tools to easily interact with open-source command line programs such as ffmpeg and mencoder
• Created a screensaver product to display dynamic video content using, C++, Win32 and NSIS

Jolly Technologies

October 2006 - February 2007

• Designed and implemented UI elements for LobbyTrack, an access control application
• Responded to end-user support requests over email and telephone.
• Visual Basic 6, Visual Studio 6, MS Access, SQL