Connect the dots. Choose a direction.
I bring ideas across disciplines, identify the problem worth solving, and turn options into a clear sequence of work. Curiosity is useful when it leads to a decision.
About Travis
Curiosity is
the constant.
I’ve always had a taste for the uncharted: unfamiliar systems, difficult questions, new places, and the moment when a better way of working starts to take shape.
“The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.”
Working together
Shared intent.
Different minds.
My ideal team
Dedicated people building something that matters, with different kinds of intelligence in the room and the trust to make every idea better.
Dedicated to the build.
I’m energized by teammates who care about the quality and consequence of what we are making, not simply completing the next task.
Intelligence in circulation.
The best idea does not belong to the loudest voice or highest title. I ask questions, connect contributions, and make room for expertise to travel across the team.
Momentum built on trust.
Candid exchange, clear decisions, and reliable follow-through let people challenge one another without losing cohesion or forward movement.
Self-reflection
A personal lens
The Enneagram is one way I reflect on my tendencies. The themes I connect with are curiosity and optimism, high standards, a desire to understand deeply, and independence.
7 / EnthusiastEnergy, possibility, curiosity
1 / ReformerPurpose, care, standards
5 / InvestigatorUnderstanding, depth, discovery
8 / ChallengerDirectness, resilience, independence
The longer thread
The experiences that shaped me
- Early foundations
Curiosity became a practice.
I was valedictorian of my high school and earned a scholarship to study physics and computer science. Community initiatives and extracurricular work made leadership practical early: contribute, organize, and help a group move.
- Netherlands + Belgium
The world became the classroom.
An international exchange in the Netherlands led into graduate business study in Belgium. I shifted from an academic path toward international business because I wanted to put ideas to work inside real organizations.
- San Francisco to Bangkok
Different markets changed how I listen.
Living and working internationally connected me with teams and businesses across Europe, Asia, Israel, and the United States. It taught me to notice assumptions, adapt quickly, and understand a problem from more than one cultural or functional perspective.
- Technology + operations
The range found its connecting thread.
At Quri, Daizy, and Chartbeat, I worked where products meet actual operations: customers, distributed teams, data quality, financial analytics, and production AI. The recurring question was always how people, information, and systems could produce a more useful result.
- 2016—present
Practice made the product questions real.
Building and running an independent tax and advisory practice gave me the practitioner’s view of complex workflows. Today I can approach a problem from inside the work, shape it as a product, and get hands-on with the technology needed to improve it.
My technical foundation includes programming coursework beginning in high school and university-level computer science study. Current work centers on AI-assisted development, systems administration, deployment, integrations, and technical troubleshooting.
- A lifelong throughline
Body, mind, and team discipline.
Sport has been a constant throughout my life, from organized baseball to years of pickup basketball. It taught me to read a team, contribute without needing the spotlight, and step forward when leadership is useful. I treat physical discipline as part of sustained performance: caring for the body sharpens the mind, steadies energy, and builds resilience.
How I operate
What teammates can expect
Listen closely. Speak directly.
I work to understand customers and specialists on their own terms. I make room for different perspectives, address disagreements openly, and keep decisions clear.
See the possibility. Test the assumptions.
I bring optimism to difficult problems and pair it with evidence, practical tradeoffs, and visible progress. A shared vision gains credibility through the work.
Make commitments. Follow through.
I take ownership beyond the first idea. Clear priorities, honest limits, and reliable follow-through help the team sustain its pace and trust one another.
Looking ahead
Build useful things.
Help people do their best work.
I want to bring my experience in product, business, and applied AI to a team building something useful. The work that interests me connects technical possibility with a real need.
My focus is on better judgment: choosing where to invest attention, helping others take ownership, and building systems a team can depend on.
Off the clock
Beyond work
Work is only part of the picture. I make room for the things that keep curiosity alive and life interesting.
- Moto and car restoration
- Pickup basketball
- Adventure travel
- Digging for new music
- Looking at the cosmos
- Sourcing seriously good food
Currently exploring
What I’m building now
AI that fits the work.
I’m building local-first AI infrastructure and client-isolated knowledge systems around my practice. The questions are practical: how to prepare documents, keep client information separate, support research, and give people a useful role in review.
Inside the current work