Francis Nelson
Principal Software Engineer at Hedy Cyber
Winchester, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFrancis Nelson is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building high-performance, user-focused web applications, currently leading frontend efforts at Hedy Cyber. He specializes in JavaScript, Angular, and React, and is adept at migrating legacy stacks forward—having led AngularJS→Angular/TypeScript transitions and ported a major app to React. A skilled D3.js practitioner, he turns complex datasets into intuitive visualizations and has a track record of improving app interoperability via JavaScript lambdas and integrations. Francis combines hands-on engineering with mentorship and cross-team coordination, contributing to products that drove significant revenue and supported high-traffic sites. Based in Winchester, VA, he’s drawn to projects that challenge frontend boundaries and explore new delivery channels like Slack and Teams apps.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
AA, General Studies, AA, General Studies at Lake-Sumter Community CollegeComputer Science, Computer Science at George Mason University
English
Github Skills (164)
wave10
code-completion10
loopback10
waveform10
javascript10
audio10
music10
rest9
emacs9
language-translation9
api9
dependency-injection9
phantomjs9
rust9
html9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
socketwiz/bin
Jul 2017 - Feb 2025
Contributions:33 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 7 months
socketwiz/dotfiles
Jul 2012 - Sep 2022
A place to store my configuration files
Contributions:416 commits, 2 PRs, 571 pushes in 10 years 3 months
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