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Travis W.

Staff engineer with 12+ years building data pipelines and automation at scale. After building the same patterns over and over - sync this to that, filter these records, notify when X happens - I realized most of it could be described in a sentence. Building Flywheel to make that work.

Background: data pipelines handling 270M+ messages/month, microservices architecture, cloud infrastructure (GCP/AWS). Led engineering teams. Now channeling all of it into making automation setup stupidly simple.

Sharing the build in public.


What are you working on

Skills/Interests: Automation • Data Pipelines • SaaS • Building in Public • AI/ML

  1. Flywheel

    Data pipelines for startups. Connect your sources, set up syncs, see real-time metrics. Free to start.

    Live (early alpha)
  2. Hexaverse

    Collaborative hex canvas - like r/place but with hexagons. Real-time multiplayer drawing on an infinite hex grid. Started as a civ-style game prototype, turned into a community art experiment.

    On Pause

Articles

  1. Flywheel: A Complete Faceliftflywheeletl.io
  2. See Your Entire Pipeline in One Viewflywheeletl.io

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