Francis Usher
Software Engineer II at Travelers
Irvine, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFrancis Usher is a Software Engineer II based in Irvine, CA with a decade of experience building customer-focused web applications and secure authentication systems. He has shipped full-stack features and platform APIs at Nexon and currently contributes to core systems at Travelers, blending front-end polish (ES6, Angular, responsive CSS) with back-end work in Scala, Python, and RESTful services. His background includes hands-on security and cryptography research—translating formal protocol models and applying crypto standards in production—so he brings a rigorous, security-minded approach to engineering. Comfortable across legacy stacks (ASP.NET, PHP) and modern toolchains (Webpack, Babel, AWS), he excels at untangling complex auth flows like OpenID Connect and OAuth2. Colleagues value him for rapid prototyping, operational experience from server maintenance to CI tooling, and a knack for turning tricky integration problems into smooth customer experiences.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Research Fellowship and Coursework, Computer Science, Research Fellowship and Coursework, Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at University of Hawaii at Hilo (UHH)
English
Github Skills (29)
discord9
discord-bot9
fusion8
nodejs8
discord-js8
api7
autodesk7
layout-editor6
keyboard6
gateway5
javascript5
json5
proxy-server4
slash4
cad4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
40-percent/40percent-bot
Nov 2020 - Sep 2021
Contributions:6 reviews, 69 commits, 24 PRs in 10 months
FrancisUsher/Pyocracy
Jun 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:11 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 23 days
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