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Travis Smith

Travis Smith

Director of Engineering at Shift Interactive

Des Moines, Iowa, United States

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Travis Smith is the Director of Engineering at Shift Interactive, a lead engineer on teams that build applications across healthcare, agriculture, insurance, and other industries. Over his 17+ year career, he's worked with organizations ranging from Fortune 500 companies to startups.

Travis is a passionate advocate for Test-Driven Development and Extreme Programming practices. He speaks regularly at Des Moines-area meetups and conferences, covering topics including DORA metrics implementation, branching strategies, delivering software extremely quickly, DevOps, Claude Code, and automated testing for AI features.

Based in the Des Moines metro, Travis is dedicated to helping engineers grow throughout the Midwest.

Area of Expertise

  • Information & Communications Technology

Topics

  • Software Engineering
  • DevOps
  • aws
  • agile
  • AI
  • Software Deveopment
  • Software Design
  • Software testing
  • Software
  • Software Practices
  • Software Architecture
  • Extreme Programming
  • Artificial Intelligence

Implementing Dora Metrics: A Practical Example

This session walks through implementing DORA metrics. It covers what the metrics are, what goals should be focused on for the metrics, what questions need to be answered to implement the metrics, and a practical strategy for implementing the DORA metrics within an organization. This is based on the knowledge and experience that I have gained through implementing them within my organization.

Travis Smith

Director of Engineering at Shift Interactive

Des Moines, Iowa, United States

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