👋 Hi there! I’m Travis, AKA Kode Rex—Technical Director of AI at 8th Light and a Perpetual Tinkerer. I’m passionate about building elegant abstractions, distributed systems, and powerhouse AI tooling.

• AI Engineering & Strategic Leadership
  – Leading AI-driven engineering initiatives at 8th Light
  – Designing and architecting frameworks (e.g., Weaver)
  – Advising Fortune 500 clients on AI product engineering
• Open-Source & Community
  – Creator of TDD Buddy - A site devoted to helping advance the practice of TDD. – Maintainer of WebCat, a dead-simple search & scrape MCP server.
• Thought Leadership
  – Writing the Navigating AI book series
  – Publishing on AI Buddy
  – Speaker at LambdaConf, AI Engineer's World Fair, RMAIIG demo night, etc

• Navigating AI: The Role of AI in DevOps
  Delivered at DevOpsMidwest, DevOpsCon, TDD Consulting (Durban), and more.
• White Papers:
  – AI Coherence (LambdaConf)
  – Navigating AI Decision Loop
  – Efficacy & Bias Mitigation in AI Governance
• Blog:
  – Unpacking the Hidden Challenges of Everyday AI
  – The Coherence Trap: Why LLMs Feel Smart but Aren’t Thinking

• 💼 LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/travis-frisinger