# Travis DePrato

> your favorite software engineer's favorite software engineer

Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/travisdeprato

A halfway decent software engineer if you ask my grandma. Like wearing lots of hats and to be always learning new things. Co-founded an educational technology startup out of the University of Michigan, now at a developer tools startup. Three-pronged engineer: frontend (React, TypeScript, GraphQL, NextJS, CSS, Tailwind, web accessibility, UX design); backend (Go, Python, NodeJS, PostgreSQL, REST, GraphQL, gRPC, websockets); and infrastructure (Kubernetes, Docker, containerd, OCI, container networking, Google Cloud Platform).

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Maven
Jan 2024 – Present | Seattle, Washington, United States

### Software Engineer, Founding Team @ Aviator
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Fourth employee on the Aviator team. Wearer of many hats. Owned, designed, and implemented projects from initial idea to MVP to customer validation. Accomplishments include developing Pilot, a low-code framework for developer automations with Aviator; creating a command line tool for Stacked PRs to make code review easier; scaffolding and transitioning to a modern NextJS frontend to enable more interactivity within our product; building out a flexible GraphQL API designed to serve multiple clients (such as the webapp, CLI tool, and external API consumers); and investing in best practices and maintainability via linting, type-checking, and improved automated testing.

### Software Engineer, Co-founder @ Pathbird
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Co-founded Pathbird, an educational technology startup to bring interactive, engaging, exploratory lessons for data science and machine learning to college classrooms. Developed the full stack from zero to production use by thousands of concurrent students. Led product direction by speaking to professors and students to discover existing pain points and identify, experiment with, and iterate on potential solutions. Built an elastically scalable infrastructure to allow students to securely run their own code in the cloud from their web browser (supporting thousands of Jupyter kernels at a time with an emphasis on low container startup latency).

### Software Engineer @ University of Michigan
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Ann Arbor, MI

### Software Engineering Intern @ Facebook
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Seattle, Washington
Worked within a product oriented team to build a restaurant discovery product to Facebook Lite (an app for lower-end devices primarily in emerging markets) to expand the customer reach. Built features for both the Facebook and Facebook Lite apps, ran A/B tests, and evaluated the performance of experiments on team and company metrics. Supported the team in evolving the existing product to support new types of content within the feed. Reported findings to organization leadership at the conclusion of the intern project with a focus on impact and expanded audience reach.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science in Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science & Engineering
University of Michigan


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/travisdeprato

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Last updated: 2026-03-29