👋 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
| Project | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Insight Mesh | On-prem RAG-in-a-box framework & orchestration for enterprise GenAI | http://insightmesh.koderex.dev |
| Weaver | A developer first Rails like GenAI application stack. Build, deploy, profit! | http://weaver.koderex.dev |
| WebCat | Open-source web search & scrape MCP server. Add web search to any GenAI project quickly! | https://github.com/koderex/webcat |
| TDD Buddy | Collection of TDD katas & exercises | https://www.tddbuddy.com |
- 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