Travis Dunn

Chief Technology Officer

DraftKings

Symposium Roles
Speaker/Panelist 2018
Panels Participated in
Platforms & APIs: How to Cut Costs, Raise Revenues & Boost Market Cap (2018)
Bio

Travis Dunn is the Chief Technology Officer at DrafKings and leads a team of 100 employees overseeing all technological resources including software engineering, data engineering, data science and site reliability while establishing the vision for the company’s future tech developments.

mr. Dunn joined DraftKings in January of 2014, he was employee number 30. As Senior Director of Engineering, he oversaw the scaling work for DraftKings’ that enabled the company to sustain rapid growth and led the mobile development of the company’s iOS and Android apps.

Prior to joining DraftKings, Mr, Dunn was the Senior Principal Software Engineer at Vistaprint where he was the technical lead responsible for Pricing, Channel Marketing and CRM and lead the R&D team in establishing patterns for refactoring and retiring legacy code.

He studied english literature at Western Washington University, but his first professional job was in data & analytics at Pegasus Satellite TV where he found his love for database work and engineering. After teaching himself the backend work needed to be an engineer, he became the expert in .NET and helped build desktop software for his previous employers. Mr. Dunn resides in the Boston area.