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Travis Brooks

Blog

Observations from the field. IoT operations, program infrastructure, and the problems worth building a system around.

July 2026
Supply Chain Operations
Spot Buys Aren't a Strategy
By the time a component goes on allocation, the arithmetic that predicted it has been sitting in public for months. Why supply risk belongs to program management, not just procurement.
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June 2026
Portfolio Operations
The Invisible Resource Problem
Every hardware company I've worked at has had at least one critically overloaded engineer who didn't show up as overloaded in any system. Here's why that happens and what the fix actually looks like.
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Travis Brooks — travisbrooks.ai
Operations Leader • San Diego, CA