Travis Gaskill

Member of Technical Staff at Etched

San Jose, California, United States

About

Interest Include: In My Career - Solving problems no one else can, striving for perfection, following through to completion, working smarter not harder, making decisions based on the bigger picture, knowing your customers / audience, deploying new technologies, speaking up, playing devil’s advocate for the sake of improving the product, listening to both sides of the story, being objective In My Life - Global warming, direct air capture of CO2, carbon sequestration, AI applications, AI for chemistry exploration, chemistry, climbing, hiking / backpacking, traveling, good food, reading books and academic research

Experience

  • Member of Technical Staff at Etched
    Apr 2025 - Present · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Senior Mechanical / Thermal Engineer at NVIDIA
    Jul 2021 - Apr 2025 · 3 yrs 10 mos

    • Lead liquid cooling engineer for NVIDIA’s thermal engineering product team. Brought NVIDIA’s GH200, A100, GB200, and MGX liquid cooled products to market. Proficiencies include the design of cold plates, liquid cooled server architectures, quick disconnects, CDU selection, flow network modeling, wetted materials selection, factory processes, enablement of the liquid cooling supplier and ODM ecosystems. Continuous building of a large contact network in the liquid cooling space. • Universal Quick Disconnect V2 Spec. Workstream Co-Lead | Open Compute Project

  • Principal Thermal Engineer at Dell
    Apr 2020 - Jul 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Thermal Engineer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
    Mar 2015 - Apr 2020 · 5 yrs 2 mos

    Design and validate all thermal aspects of HPC servers including: Optimizing layout for thermal performance, simulating designs in CFD and validating/comparing to empirical lab testing, prototype testing, baffle design, heatsink design, acoustic characterization and optimization, DFM and cost reduction, fan setting optimization for thermal margin and acoustics, R&D for next generation products, sustaining engineering and quality control for shipping product, maintaining professional relationships with vendors, RFQ creation and project management Specialty in liquid cooling including: Long term base level knowledge of fluid heat transfer, designing direct liquid cooling (DLC) systems for multiple server types including open and closed loop systems, fully fanless DLC systems, DLC retrofits, DLC bench top level testing and instrumentation, in depth knowledge of the liquid cooling market

  • Product Engineer at Weatherford
    Apr 2012 - Mar 2015 · 3 yrs

    Product Engineer | Alpha Multiphase Flowmeters • R&D and product optimization for an oil & gas inline three-phase flowmeter • Development of a high temperature electromechanical solution • Product installation and commissioning, technical customer support • Data analysis, prototyping, sustaining engineering, functional requirement documentation