Travis Briggs earned his BS in computer science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is a software developer, amateur musician, and blogger. All of these skills come together on his personal website, located at travisbriggs.com

Travis' professional specialties center around open source web application development and all of the modern tools that enable this task: "scripting" languages such as Ruby, Javascript, Python and — to a lesser extent — PHP; data stores such as MySQL, MongoDB and Cassandra; servers such as nginx and Apache; and various other client and server side technologies.