Travis Gosselin Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

SPS Commerce offers a SaaS platform for seamless integration and EDI between retailers and suppliers (trading partners). Once on the platform customers can take advantage of products from fulfillment, sourcing, assortment, and analytics. As a Distinguished Software Engineer focused on Developer Experience, I work strategically to develop the emerging space of Developer Experience and Productivity Engineering at SPS. Continued research and development to enable our engineers to reduce toil and stay in creative flow longer are essential. Day to day I focus on developing broad approaches across the development teams to realize this value, while also working closely with our internal Platform teams to bridge the gap in understanding true productivity and making the quality of life for our engineers that much better to deliver an amazing product to our customers!

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

SPS Commerce offers a SaaS platform for seamless integration and EDI between retailers and suppliers (trading partners). Once on the platform customers can take advantage of products from fulfillment, sourcing, assortment, and analytics. As a Principal Software Engineer focused on Developer Experience, I worked strategically to develop the emerging space of Developer Experience and Productivity Engineering at SPS. This led to deep dives into the organization's application development patterns, CI/CD efficiency and patterns, and the development of an API program and best practices.

Toronto, Canada

SPS Commerce offers a SaaS platform for seamless integration and EDI between retailers and suppliers (trading partners). Once on the platform customers can take advantage of products from fulfillment, sourcing, assortment, and analytics. As a Principal Software Engineer on the Analytics development teams, we built applications to drive the retailer/vendor in category management processes and insight using the latest technology and cloud infrastructure including AWS and Azure. Day-to-day involves architecturally designing a pluggable analytics framework that allows for client-specific customization, that is both scalable and repeatable. Agile processes, automated testing, and continuous delivery are essential components to its success.

Brampton, Ontario, Canada

As ToolBox took a more active role in leading the Category Management industry with the revolutionary web software we had been building, I began in the lead role in architecting a re-usable, customize-able and distribute-able Web Reporting Framework for consumption within the company's own multiple development teams. The challenges in this framework were quite different from most, with the development of custom virtual pages, embedded resource dependency manager, and several other deep ASP.NET customization to ensure this product would be very easy to distribute and customize. This product would soon become ToolBox’s flagship product, and bring faster data insights to the customer like never before with development times cut in half. This would be the first of a few key innovative products under my responsibility acting as Senior Architect.- Development of re-usable, customizable, enterprise reporting framework(s).- Core feature development in .NET with C# and SQL Server.- Use of the latest technologies where possible to bring the development and customer experience to the max.- Administrator for TFS, and migrations through to TFS 2012.- Development of Technology Roadmaps for the dev team(s).- Architectural designs from Client side frameworks such as Backbone, AngularJS, and Knockout all the way through the Server Data Access Tier including Web Services, Web API, MVC, WCF, and Entity Framework.- Developed and coordinated integrated development team code reviews.- Introduced branching and merging strategies for supporting multiple active-release versions of an application.- Continued work as a part of the company's Innovation Team for Research & Development.

Brampton, Ontario, Canada

ToolBox Solutions are very good at delivering high-quality analytics that meets any reporting need. Clients like Loblaws, Petro-Canada, Nestle Waters, demanded the highest quality work in the least amount of time. Reporting systems were built quickly and efficiently in a small team scenario, which allowed each team member to be adaptable and step into anyone’s shoes at a moment's notice. Precision and performance were also a requirement as some reporting systems involved working with Billions of rows of reporting data all driven from a SQL Server architecture.- Development of a corporate reporting system containing billions of records of data.- Development of core features in .NET and C#.- Development of enhanced client features developed in JavaScript for maximum client-side performance.- Development and support of Sharepoint sites, and automated installation process.- Created database architectures and designs in SQL Server 2008.

As a slightly new chapter in my career, I took the opportunity to become a published author, and began building hardcore developer training material and videos for the popular "Pluralsight" website. This was a new type of challenge for me that I enjoyed very much, and the Pluralsight author community were very welcoming and helpful. I continue to work on new material and content as a subject matter expert (Author Profile: http://www.pluralsight.com/author/travis-gosselin). - Development of all aspects of course content including outline, flow, testing material, demos, and presentations.- Acted as subject matter expert and technology specialist for course design.- Narrating and editing of all courses.

FRIMP is an online networking and social dating web application designed to be fun through a series of small games. Members create FRIMP games and invite people to play for a chance to win a date with the prize Fringle player. The entire experience is brought to the players through a fun interactive interface that resembles a similar style to existing social networks. - Lead contract developer for web application architecture, design, and implementation.- Implementation of highly interactive interface in HTML and JavaScript backed by ASP.NET.- Heavy JavaScript and single-page application architecture and design patterns.- Integration with FaceBook Graph API for marketing and socializing.- Highly service oriented architecture ready to scale horizontally.- Agile and Kanban style development processes used.

Barrie, Ontario, Canada

Process Driven are experts at building feature-rich web applications which are user-friendly and fulfill business needs. They leverage client-side scripting toolkits to animate, minimize download times, load features on demand, connect to live data sources, create smarter controls, give better user feedback, and provide a visually compelling user experience.- Development of a corporate reporting system containing a full feature set of exports, customizable parameter selections, and performance tuning for maximum experience.- Development of core features and enhancements using .NET and C#.- Development of an automated application to create specific vendor files on a weekly basis for over 150 different vendor types.- Customization of vendor Sharepoint sites (programmatic use of WSS and Sharepoint).- Maintained and supported Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) to allow for a secure code in a multi-team environment.- Created database architectures and designs in SQL Server 2005.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

MMC’s core development pertained to building highly scalable local search clients available on instant messaging clients and portable devices. I worked as part of a highly agile team that used the latest Microsoft technologies to support the development of “Poynt”. Responsibilities and contributions to the team included:- Development of core features and enhancements to the system using .NET 3.0 and C#.- Development of an administration system for deployment with the platform using ASP.NET and AJAX Extensions.- Consumption of external XML data to provide seamless integration of live data.- Dynamic virtual mapping technology scripted to allow integration of 3D Maps with live data.- System made 100% scalable via the use of modules broken down using Windows Communication Foundation (WCF).- Maintained and supported Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) to allow for a secure code in a multi-team environment.- Upgraded TFS, and scripted continuous integration tasks, automated builds, and deployments via MSBuild and Microsoft SMS Installer.- Created database architectures and designs in SQL Server 2005.- Developed .NET User Group web solution created with ASP.NET and AJAX.

Barrie, Ontario, Canada

BT Web Design’s core business involved the creation and hosting of small business and personal web solutions. As the core developer of BT Web Design, solutions and architectures were implemented by myself in a fast-paced iterative cycle. Most often sites were developed using open-source technologies including PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript.- Responsible for end-to-end iteration with clients of premium web solutions from concept to implementation, including e-commerce solutions.- Maintenance and support of web servers and applications to the client.- Cost analysis, benefit structure outline, and alternatives provided and evaluated to the client.- Solutions and architectures implemented using PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, XML.

Barrie, Ontario, Canada

As a Library Commons Navigator, I was responsible for handling the first level of tech support at the Georgian College Library. This included many responsibilities from customer care to technical support.- Support and troubleshooting with wireless network infrastructure.- Administrative management of Georgian College passwords.- Application and customer care support to staff and students.- Roll out of new PCs to replace existing legacy devices.