Travis Siems

About Travis Siems

I\'m a creative problem-solver building the identity layer of the internet at ID.me. I design core authentication and verification systems used by millions of Americans, and I care about getting the details right: clean domain models, strong security foundations, and designs that hold up under real-world pressure.I\'m passionate about using AI to multiply engineering effectiveness. I actively use AI-assisted development to ship faster, catch more edge cases, and produce more reliable changes. I believe AI is a force multiplier for engineers who invest in learning how to wield it well.Before ID.me, I led an engineering team building a commercial real estate SaaS platform at Dottid, and built safety-critical telematics microservices at Toyota Connected serving millions of vehicles.My master\'s research at SMU focused on side-channel attacks, specifically using smartphone sensor data to detect and decode keystrokes from nearby keyboards. My thesis is available at https://scholar.smu.edu/engineering_compsci_etds/3/.

Experience

1. Staff Software Engineer

   ID.me

   Mar 2026 — Present

   Design and build core authentication and identity verification systems at ID.me, serving millions of users across government and enterprise partners- Led architectural design of a new platform system including authentication, from data modeling and API specifications to implementation patterns adopted across the engineering org- Owned containerization and modernization of critical applications, migrating from EC2 to Nomad on GCP, including CI pipelines, monitoring, and traffic routing- Led security and automation initiatives that reduced operational costs by $1M+/year and improved account security for millions of users- Built a data processing pipeline with partitioned parallel execution, processing billions of records for validation and normalization- Designed platform API domain models and data integration patterns for ID.me\'s graph database- Cross-org subject matter expert and tech lead for authentication architecture.

Education

• Southern Methodist University

  Master of Science - MS, Computer Science

  2016 — 2018

• Southern Methodist University

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Engineering

  2014 — 2018

Skills

• Java
• Php
• Xcode
• Sql
• Databases
• Microsoft Office
• Programming
• Oop
• Xslt
• Angularjs
• Html5
• Xml
• Javascript
• Ios Development
• Software Development
• Python
• Json
• Css
• Web Development
• C++
• Swift
• Ionic Framework