Travis Russi
Full Stack Developer with Startup, Agency, and Business Chops
I am deeply passionate about building great software products. Willing to get out of my comfort zone to grow and learn, I always give 100% to any project I'm involved with. Fortunately, 20 years of wide-ranging professional endeavors have honed my ability to quickly ramp-up on new projects and teams, minimize communication overhead, avoid the perils of over-engineering, and deliver remarkably fast product development.
FULL STACK Developer
Years spent as a full-stack developer allow me to manage any aspect of product delivery from architecture, to database, to API, to third-party integrations, to web UI, to native mobile applications, to DevOps.
STARTUPS
Years spent as a technical, hands-on co-founder for internet startups have made me a master at uncovering the real needs of users and quickly translating them into viable technical solutions.
AGENCY & CONSULTANCY
Years spent in the agency and consultancy world have fine-tuned my ability to listen to client needs, dive into unknown codebases, and deliver high-value solutions that beat client expectations.
BUSINESS
Years spent on non-technical persuits have made me well-rounded in how all aspects of business operate, creating a breadth of real-world experience that gives me an uncanny ability to quickly understand and solve real problems.
Shipped Products
Over the years, I’ve worked on a lot of different products.
Here are some of the more interesting ones that actually shipped.
Missionmark
Venture-backed technology startup focused on making opportunity identification and qualification easier for mid-tier Federal government contractors.
Highlights
Free Your Form
Simplify the process of capturing form submission data across many diverse web sites.
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Simple Deal
No typing, no maps, no camera. Just point at a restaurant location and gain instant access to all deals and offerings being made available to you…at that exact moment.
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StuffHub
Sell used items through the Facebook platform without having to write a description or take a picture of the item. Just search and post. Fastest way to sell used stuff.
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Easy Typer
Hunt and peck typing made easy. Bring your monitor to your fingertips using your mobile device. See what you’re typing, as you type. Zoom the screen up to 5x.
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Projects That Haven’t Shipped
As much as I’d like to say that all my projects make it across the finish line,
the nature of my work is that some don’t.
Flow Rocket
Project management solution based on dynamic workflows that could accomodate ad-hoc changes as projects evolved over time. Prototype was built, but never publicly launched.
Dealette
Leveraging a lucrative piece of the credit card transaction infrastructure that our Client had rights to. Only made it to the very early planning stages.
Wampum
Color-coin implementation built on top of the bitcoin blockchain. Built a prototype of a color-aware mobile wallet using Xamarin for iOS, but was never publicly released.
Easy Agent Promo
Marketing automation platform for real estate professional that generated videos and landing pages. Launched in 2012, but not currently live.
Kiss Framework
An ASP.Net starter project to make starting a new project easier. Feature complete, but not publicly released.
Prop Builder
Proposal management solution for large-scale federal proposals. Mock-ups were created, but a prototype was never built.
Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you. Russell Simmons
Interesting Clients I’ve Worked With
Marketing Projects
Some of the projects I’ve worked on were experimenting with interesting approaches
to market or position existing service offerings.
XKLaunch
Explored a unique way to fund early-stage startups using a fixed-fee pricing model to build out an initial MVP.
FounderLess
Challenging the assumption that products need founders. Working on model for highly subsidized SaaS products.
Dabble Lab
Worked on a productized service offering to help early stage entrepreneurs get from idea to MVP faster.