Travis Purdy Email & Phone Number

Lampasas, Tx, Us

Santa Barbara, California, United States

Architected a new product suite focused upon the amalgamation of several proprietary big data pipelines, data streaming, and data science-driven machine learning models. With a heavy emphasis on performance and reliability, every decision was focused around both product stability and data quality for the enterprise customer base. Spearheaded the transition from a legacy codebase to a more modern language and technology suite.Managed engineering resources located within the US and… Show more Architected a new product suite focused upon the amalgamation of several proprietary big data pipelines, data streaming, and data science-driven machine learning models. With a heavy emphasis on performance and reliability, every decision was focused around both product stability and data quality for the enterprise customer base. Spearheaded the transition from a legacy codebase to a more modern language and technology suite.Managed engineering resources located within the US and Portugal in a highly Agile environment with a reliance on the product and executive teams for industry guidance and product vision. Show less

Santa Barbara, California

Santa Barbara, California Area

Santa Barbara, California Area

Internet marketing startup constructing an automated platform to allow brands and agencies to effortlessly manage organic local business listings across hundreds of search portals.Serve as chief architect, product manager, full-stack engineering lead, and technical visionary in the design and development of a heavily-automated cloud-based platform creating and updating search portal listings at scale. Designed and developed a proprietary automation method and “verification wizard,”… Show more Internet marketing startup constructing an automated platform to allow brands and agencies to effortlessly manage organic local business listings across hundreds of search portals.Serve as chief architect, product manager, full-stack engineering lead, and technical visionary in the design and development of a heavily-automated cloud-based platform creating and updating search portal listings at scale. Designed and developed a proprietary automation method and “verification wizard,” cutting product fulfillment from 4 hours to 10 minutes per order, requiring significantly less oversight and boosting profit margins considerably.• Key member of senior executive team, working closely with the CEO, providing input and assisting with the execution and integration of high-level partnerships, product direction, budget management, innovative product and customer offerings, and company procedures and policies.• Routinely act as the “glue” between executive, engineering/QA, operations, and sales teams to bolster the quality and efficiency of the product as well as its value proposition.• Manages seven teams (on- and off-shore) responsible for the design, engineering, and quality assurance of the entire application stack.• Consolidated infrastructure requirements, reducing costs by 60% while accommodating higher volumes more reliably. Reduced UI application latency by a factor of 2000. Show less

Santa Barbara, California Area

A startup capitalizing on the limitations, excessive costs and difficulties in conducting online sales through Amazon, Craigslist and eBay by developing an innovative e-commerce platform and mobile application to make it easy to buy, sell, share, and ship items online.Technical visionary behind an iPhone-based conversational interface and a socially-powered web-based listing platform to facilitate the sale of items online. Chief architect of an extensible, scalable backend stack used to… Show more A startup capitalizing on the limitations, excessive costs and difficulties in conducting online sales through Amazon, Craigslist and eBay by developing an innovative e-commerce platform and mobile application to make it easy to buy, sell, share, and ship items online.Technical visionary behind an iPhone-based conversational interface and a socially-powered web-based listing platform to facilitate the sale of items online. Chief architect of an extensible, scalable backend stack used to maintain all user interfaces, PCI compliance, and real-time third-party integrations.• Architected an extensible and scalable e-commerce platform featuring advanced integrations with third party tools/services, PCI compliance, and a strong emphasis on data security.• Designed and developed an XML-based API system to drive an elaborate social marketplace front-end and an intuitive iPhone application tightly integrated with eBay.• Served as key member of executive team: participated in competitive analysis, market definition, product design, engineering processes, strategic partnerships, and fundraising.• Spearheaded the implementation of an innovative method for charities to leverage the Zuujit platform for fundraising, through which 97% of proceeds go directly to the charity.• Directed a team of web and mobile software engineers and graphic designers.• Managed two offshore development teams from a leading offshore product development firm. Show less

• Developed a proprietary eCommerce platform that features a custom, secure checkout solution and administrative interface. • Designed and implemented efficient, user-friendly informational websites for businesses in various industries: transportation, media, literary, education, medical and others.• Served as graphic designer on print campaigns for BSH, Bandai, Kellogg’s, Thermador, and others.• Created logos, banners, book covers, flyers, and other graphics.