Travis Smith is a physicist-turned-developer with a history of working with distributed systems. He currently works as a Developer Evangelist for Atlassian and holds a Microsoft .NET MVP. Travis is involved in the open source community, committing to projects like MassTransit and Topshelf. He spends his time enabling people via technology, watching his cat chase a laser pointer, training his toddler son for world domination, and playing board games (practicing for world domination). Follow Travis at @travisthetechie or find him at travisthetechie.com.