Travis Stephenson.

Travis owns the AI platform at AppsTango. He's the product manager between the customer's "we want an AI agent" pitch and the production deployment that actually ships.

The hard part of his job is saying no. Roughly four out of every five "AI agent" requests we hear are actually structured workflow requests with a chat interface bolted on. Travis runs the kill-or-keep decision: state machine where a state machine works, agent only where reasoning is genuinely required, eval harness in CI on every prompt change.

When the answer is keep, he's the PM through the build — Bedrock-hosted models, AWS AgentCore Runtime, custom MCP servers in the customer's repo, Bedrock Guardrails on every output, cost guardrails per tool call, and the phased rollout (shadow → human-in-the-loop → autonomous) that catches the bad behaviors before they touch production traffic.