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Travis
Fraser
AI builder and operator. 13+ years across sales, operations, and analytics before Berkeley Haas; now I ship AI products and I’m recruiting for product and applied-AI roles. Happiest on hard, ambiguous problems, on the trail or in the terminal.
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Waypoints 6 MARKED
What I’ve built
Rubrica
Privacy-first AI exam grading
Hand-grading a big course is slow and uneven, and sending exams to an AI can expose student names. In pre-pilot beta testing across several Haas courses (one has 225 students), with 850+ exams graded to date. It grades to the instructor’s rubric, keeps stored names out of AI requests, and puts every grade in front of the instructor to override.
Python / FlaskClaude VisionSQLite
In beta at Berkeley Haas
Ratchet
A quality gate for LLM prompts
Most prompt edits ship on a hunch, and fixing one case quietly breaks others. On its first real task it lifted grounded accuracy from 95.6% to 97.7% and cut misread climbs from 12 to zero. A change ships only if it beats the current prompt on data it never saw.
PythonGround-truth evalsHeld-out gate
Open source
Trail Intelligence
Multimodal · vision + telemetry
Trail ratings are opinions, and a vision model alone misreads terrain: from pixels it called direction right only 64% of the time. Given the ride’s GPS grade and tuned with Ratchet, 97.7%. Chest-cam frames paired with GPS and accelerometer, so the read starts from measurement.
Claude + Gemma visionGPS + IMU telemetryReact
Live demo
SiteProof
Co-founded with my brother
Rental damage reports are slow and subjective, and an AI that guesses repair costs is a liability. Vision finds the damage; a separate deterministic engine prices it across 62 item types, built from 55+ researched pricing sources, so the model never invents a dollar figure.
Python / FlaskVision AIVercel
Co-founded · paused
Ask Travis
Grounded RAG assistant
A chatbot with private data in context is one jailbreak away from a leak. This one has nothing private to give away: 161 red-team attacks, zero leaks, zero fabrications. It answers only from a public-safe corpus and stores no conversations, bar one narrow security exception.
Vercel FunctionsClaude APIUpstash Redis
161 attacks · 0 leaks
Build School
Teaching · free guides
Most people with a good idea stop at “I can’t code.” These free, self-guided guides get anyone from zero to shipped with AI, no coding. The first goes from a resume to a live site to a chatbot that sounds like you.
Claude CodeVercelRAG
Free · self-guided
More on GitHub: Spotify Insight Pipeline, 660,622 app reviews turned into a ranked, evidence-backed product recommendation; local-gemma-wiki, a personal wiki CLI on a local Gemma model that checks its own citations
Base_Camp DOUBLE BEAR
Academic background
2025–2027
MBA, AI for Business
UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business
2022–2024
BA, Global Studies & Economics
University of California, Berkeley
2023–2024
Study Abroad, Political Economy
Meiji Gakuin University, Yokohama
2020–2025
AA, Japanese · AA, Fine Arts
Saddleback College
Gear PACKED
What I work with
Build
Python / Flask / FastAPIClaude Code & APIHarness engineeringVision pipelinesLocal models (MLX, Gemma)React / VitePostgres / SQLiteVercel serverlessLM Studio / Ollama
Analyze
Eval & verification systemsData analysis & PandasLLM labeling at scaleRed-team testingModel A/B testingSQLExcel / VBA
Lead
Product managementSales & revenue growthCustomer successCross-functional leadershipProcess improvement
Points_of_Interest 6 PINS
What interests me
Artificial Intelligence
How AI reshapes products, workflows, and whole industries. And more importantly, when the technology is actually the right tool. Certified in AI/ML.
Product Management
Talking to people and understanding their needs to drive what to build, and why.
Operations
Designing systems and processes that scale, from ERP migrations to KPI dashboards.
Data & Analytics
Finding the signal in the noise and turning it into a decision to act on.
Japan & Language
Lived in Japan 4+ months, earned an AA in Japanese; fascinated by the place and craft.
Cycling & the Outdoors
Passionate about hiking and cycling. Raced XC, Enduro, and Downhill MTB.
0 MI · 0 FT CLIMBED
Trail_Log 13+ YRS
Where I’ve been
2026–Present
Founder
Rubrica · Early-stage AI startup
Taking Rubrica from a GSI grading fix to a product other instructors install. It ships as a signed, notarized macOS app now in beta testing with Haas faculty, with a citable validation report on Zenodo.
2026–2026
Pathways Operations Manager
Amazon · Internship
The core project, a pick-optimization fix, came from walking the floor with operators, managers, and fleet, then checking the numbers; early data showed better policy compliance and faster picks. Also built a solo capacity simulation testing whether the facility could absorb a planned volume increase.
2024–2026
Graduate Student Instructor
UC Berkeley Haas · Microeconomics
Instruction for ~130 students; built Rubrica to replace a manual grading process, now in beta testing.
2024–2025
Teaching Assistant
UC Berkeley Haas · Data & Decisions
Built AI-assisted grading workflows and custom Excel rubrics that cut feedback turnaround by ~70%; developed Python notebooks and prompt-engineered tools to aggregate survey feedback at scale.
2020–2021
Business Process Consultant
Independent · Orange County, CA
Mapped legacy workflows and inventories for a $2M elastomer distributor, then led an ERP migration and change plan; authored AS/ISO-compliant service and sales SOPs, improving audit readiness and order-entry times.
2018–2020
Regional Sales Manager
The Flexitallic Group
Owned the California market for a $250M+ industrial leader; grew territory from $3.6M to $4.5M+ in under two years, implemented Salesforce, opened a new market segment.
2015–2018
Customer Success, Ops & Marketing Manager
Hercules OEM
Built a “units of workload” account model and live KPI dashboard; stood up the first marketing function supporting $700K in new-account sales; kept 100% retention through a 23% team reduction.
2014–2015
Account Manager, Inside Sales
Hercules OEM
Managed key military & aerospace accounts; learned mil-spec coding and technical-drawing analysis; built Excel tools that improved quotation pricing and service productivity.
2010–2014
Graphic Designer, Freelance
Rancho Santa Margarita, CA
Built a freelance design consultancy during rehabilitation from a serious injury; designed logos, brochures, and marketing materials for local SMEs across industries.
2007–2010
Buyer, Export
JAE Electronics
Managed ~$7M in Japanese aerospace accounts (JAXA, Ministry of Defense); redesigned RFQ-to-order workflows, increasing productivity 300%.
2003–2007
Founding Purchasing Manager
Rice Integration
Employee #5 at a networking-hardware startup; built purchasing, shipping, and inventory from scratch; drove 15–24% profit growth through supplier negotiations and a new quotation tool.