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.
11 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 (20)
discord-bot9
editor8
typescript8
visual-studio-code8
discord8
electron8
microsoft7
nodejs7
autodesk7
cad5
realms5
javascript4
rest4
gateway3
reverse-proxy2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
FrancisUsher/Pyocracy
Jun 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:11 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 23 days
40-percent/40percent-bot
Nov 2020 - Sep 2021
Contributions:6 reviews, 69 commits, 24 PRs in 10 months
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