// lead platform engineer · nashville, tn

Travis
Hoover

I build the systems engineers ship on — release pipelines, AWS infrastructure, and the observability that proves a change actually helped. Plus the occasional Discord bot.

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Travis Hoover

01 · About

Shipping software for a decade.

I'm the Lead Platform Engineer at Fortress OS, a property-management SaaS platform, where I've spent eight years growing from the company's first DevOps engineer to Director of Engineering to leading platform work across the org — while staying hands-on with the systems in production.

My home turf is the path from commit to production: release-candidate automation, progressive delivery and rollback strategy, distributed AWS infrastructure built with CDK, and Datadog observability with SLOs and incident runbooks that keep MTTR honest. For the past three years I've also been the technical lead and auditor liaison for our SOC 2 Type I and Type II program, and I run our Okta directory and SAML SSO integrations.

Before Fortress I built backend services on Azure at Johnson Controls, ingesting sensor telemetry at scale for IoT-connected building automation.

  • Node.js
  • TypeScript
  • Python
  • SQL
  • AWS · CDK · Lambda
  • Infrastructure as Code
  • CI/CD & Release Eng
  • Datadog & SLOs
  • Okta / SAML SSO
  • SOC 2

02 · Experience

Where I've been.

  1. Jan 2026 — Present

    Lead Platform Engineer · Fortress OS

    Set technical direction for backend and platform engineering across the team. Technical lead and primary auditor liaison for the SOC 2 Type I and Type II program, and administrator of the company's Okta directory and SAML SSO integrations.

  2. Jun 2025 — Jan 2026

    Director of Engineering · Fortress OS

    Directed engineering across development and DevOps teams — balancing delivery of business-critical features with operational reliability and developer experience.

  3. 2018 — 2025

    Software Developer → Principal DevOps Engineer · Fortress OS

    Joined as the company scaled from startup to growth stage and became its sole DevOps engineer. Rebuilt the release pipeline around automated release-candidate builds, built feature-flag and rollback infrastructure, architected distributed autoscaling AWS infrastructure, and introduced the Datadog alerting, SLOs, and incident runbooks the platform still runs on.

  4. 2016 — 2018

    Software Engineer · Johnson Controls

    Built backend services and APIs on Azure for IoT-connected building automation products, including sensor telemetry ingestion pipelines at scale across a distributed, microservices-oriented stack.

03 · Projects

Things I've built.

Featured

ProofOfLife

A self-hosted Discord bot that brings BeReal-style daily photo check-ins to friend groups. A random ping fires each day; photos stay hidden until the reveal, streaks build (with Duolingo-style freezes and vacation mode), and the group votes on a photo of the day. Weekly recaps, leaderboards, and session persistence included.

  • TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • SQLite
  • Discord API
  • Railway

Pongbot

Serverless Slack bot that tracks office ping pong games, rankings, and bragging rights on AWS Lambda.

JavaScript

Breach Checker

Mobile app that checks whether your credentials have surfaced in known data breaches.

TypeScript

Pingredients

React Native app that turns Pinterest recipe boards into a ready-to-shop grocery list.

JavaScript

PR Peddler

GitHub App that shepherds pull requests so they don't die lonely in the review queue.

JavaScript

Whistler

Error-logging service that turns crashes into tickets and lets end users add the missing context.

JavaScript

More on GitHub →

Experiments, exercises, and everything else — from Prolog to pthreads.

04 · Contact

Say hello.

Want to talk shop, swap Nashville restaurant recommendations, or nerd out about serverless? My inbox is open.

traviskhoover@gmail.com