Travis Hoffman is an expert in building innovative teams and improving team cohesion. With a passion for creating highly effective teams, he has experience in a variety of roles and perspectives, including being a planner, engineer, scientist, artist, and strategist. Travis has extensive experience in Java, having implemented numerous projects in the language, which includes custom AWT and SWT ports, and soft-realtime embedded systems in Java. He has also worked with SOA frameworks like Spring and Dropwizard and SQL databases like Oracle, MySql, and Mongo. Travis has worked as a Principal Consultant at Firkin Software, Solutions Architect at Confluent, and Principal Technical Lead at Catalyte. He has also worked as a Senior Software Engineer at New Relic, Inc. and Bodybuilding.com, amongst others. Travis holds a Master's degree in coursework from the University of Arizona and a Bachelor's degree from the same institution.