# Travis Pennetti > Software Engineer @ Atlassian Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/travispennetti Software engineer, team lead, and manager with a decade of experience building products in an array of industries for startups to enterprises. Skilled in a variety of programming languages, platforms, and software development methods. Strong in communicating complex business concepts in stakeholder conversations and in code. Passionate about building, leading, and managing empowered product teams with focus. Driven by continuous self improvement and excited to own new challenges. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Atlassian Jan 2024 – Present | Chicago, Illinois, United States ### Principal Consultant, Engineering @ Focused Labs Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Chicago, Illinois, United States • Collaborated with client stakeholders on project scopings, statements of work, team allocations, technical execution, product roadmaps, success criteria, software development lifecycle practices, and architecture. • Led recovery of a behind-schedule mobile application project (Kotlin, Android, Jetpack Compose) by establishing parallel work streams, strategically growing the development team, and collaborating with the client to align on long term estimates. ### Lead Software Engineer @ Focused Labs Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Chicago, Illinois, United States • Led the technical discovery for redesigning a client’s backend architecture to leverage GraphQL and ElasticSearch resulting in extension of work and the client establishing a new product team to drive the effort. ### Engineering Manager @ Focused Labs Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Chicago, Illinois, United States • Redesigned the engineering interview process to address talent gaps leading to higher team performance. • Collaborated with the people team to gather data on feedback and improve frequency and quality or feedback. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Focused Labs Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Chicago, Illinois, United States • Led development of a client application (Kotlin, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Spring Boot, AWS, Kubernetes) built on a legacy mainframe system to support one million requests per day as part of a newly established business unit that grew to over $100 million in revenue for the client over one year. ### Senior Software Engineer III @ Clearcover Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Chicago, Illinois, United States • Established and led a team of four developers and a product manager to implement, generate, store, and remediate legal and compliance documentation for auto insurance policy holders (Kotlin Ktor, Guice, LiquidJS, AWS, S3). • Decreased costly errors on auto insurance forms by half through automated testing and improved requirements gathering. • Led the migration of document generation criteria from a legacy codebase to decouple deployments, decrease inter-team dependencies, and improve time to remediate errors removing a bottleneck in expanding insurance to new states. ### Member of Technical Staff III @ VMware Tanzu Labs Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Greater Chicago Area (Title change from Senior Software Engineer at Pivotal Software, Inc.) ### Senior Software Engineer @ VMware Tanzu Labs Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Chicago, Illinois • Led the development of a global bank transaction hub (Kotlin, Spring, MarkLogic NoSQL) supporting millions of financial transactions per day and interviewed candidates for the client as they scaled their team. • Led the design and architecture for product attribution software (Java, Spring, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, React) to replace a client’s off-the-shelf solution resulting in a savings of around $300,000 per year. (Formerly Pivotal Software, Inc.) ### Software Engineer @ VMware Tanzu Labs Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Chicago, Illinois • Contributed to and led a variety of client projects using C# (.NET Core), Kotlin/Java (Spring Boot), JavaScript/TypeScript (React, React Native, Angular), Swift (iOS), Kubernetes, Kafka, and more deployed on AWS, GCP, and Azure. • Practiced and taught extreme programming with an emphasis on test driven development, continuous integration, continuous deployment, pair programming, and domain driven design as a full stack consulting developer. (Formerly Pivotal Software, Inc.) ### Product Engineer @ Jellyvision Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Chicago, IL • Developed an interactive benefits counselor to help employees make informed decisions about choosing the optimal benefits. • Contributed to several front-end (JavaScript, Backbone.js) projects, the core back-end (Ruby, Ruby on Rails), and the rewrite of the primary Adobe Flash application. ### Software Engineer @ Booz Allen Hamilton Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Herndon, VA Implemented a lightweight content management system (CMS) in JavaScript (AngularJS) and Java on a small, agile, scrum-based team. Development required an interim Top Secret security clearance (Counter-WMD Mission Set). ### Teaching Assistant @ University of Virginia Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Charlottesville, VA Teaching assistant for software development course (CS 3240) at the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science in the Computer Science Department. Helped students complete programming assignments in Python over two semesters. ### Software Development Engineer Intern @ Microsoft Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Redmond, WA C++ developer in the Windows Phone division on the Core Operating System team. Implemented a desktop to Windows Phone certificate verification API and contributed to production code for Windows Phone 8. Designed, implemented and tested a proof of concept for a new feature 'Remote Attestation', which provided an API for verifying and retrieving (via an XML file) Windows Phone Operating System settings on boot including Boot Configuration Database (BCD) settings, Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) settings, Secure Boot Configuration Policy (SBCP) settings, Operating System information, Product Verification Key (PVK), System on Chip (SoC) values and User Mode Code Integrity (UMCI) registry key values. ### Teaching Assistant @ University of Virginia Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Charlottesville, VA Teaching assistant for discrete mathematics course (CS 2102) at the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science in the Computer Science Department. Discrete mathematics covers set theory, proofs, Boolean algebra, and combinatorics. ### Software Engineer Intern @ Northrop Grumman Corporation Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Charlottesville, VA Java developer, tester and engineer on the Biometric Identity Intelligence Resource (BIIR), an application that ingests, indexes, analyzes and displays biometric information including fingerprints collected from battlefield forensics matched against the Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS) and the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS) to provide supportive counterintelligence for the counter-improvised explosive device (C-IED) mission set. Development required an interim Secret security clearance and included classified data and networks. ### Computer Technician @ Dewberry Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Fairfax, VA Performed network administration using Active Directory (AD), technology support, disk imaging, software troubleshooting, and computer hardware configuration. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science University of Virginia Jan 2010 – Jan 2014 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/travis-pennetti --- Source: https://flows.cv/travispennetti JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/travispennetti/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22