Travis Spencer
Executive Advisor at Curity
Vårgårda, Västra Götaland County, Sweden
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Top SchoolTravis Spencer is an executive advisor and seasoned technology leader with 12 years of hands-on engineering experience and a track record of founding and scaling API and identity-focused companies. He served as CEO of Curity and Nordic APIs, blending product strategy, developer ecosystem building, and go-to-market leadership from Sweden. His early technical roots include identity and federation engineering and senior architecture at firms like Ping Identity and Fiserv, giving him deep expertise in authentication, OpenID Connect, and secure web platform design. Travis is an active open-source contributor to the widely used Jetty project, where he improved OIDC security and refactored modules for better performance with HttpClient. He combines an MBA and a BS in Computer Science to bridge technical decisions with commercial outcomes, often spotting subtle risks in authentication flows before they become problems. Pragmatic and curious, he’s equally comfortable shaping high-level strategy as he is reviewing pull requests that harden security and reliability.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Business, MBA Business at George Fox UniversityBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Portland State University
English, Swedish
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Github Skills (15)
openid-connect10
javas10
http10
java10
security10
oauth9
servlet9
http-client9
eclipse8
wif6
asp-net6
authentication6
postman6
adfs6
saml6
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
jetty/jetty.project
Sep 2019 - Aug 2020
Eclipse Jetty® - Web Container & Clients - supports HTTP/3, HTTP/2, HTTP/1, websocket, servlets, and more
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 6 commits, 7 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Travis primarily contributed to the `jetty/jetty.project` repository, focusing on the `jetty-openid` module. Their work involved enhancing security features, specifically addressing issues related to OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication, including validating audience claims and enabling configurable endpoints. The user also refactored code to use HttpClient, improving the overall performance and maintainability of the module. These changes indicate a focus on improving the functionality and security aspects of the Jetty server.
eclipsejettyservletwebcontainerwebsocket
curityio/example-java-oauth-protected-api
Oct 2016 - Dec 2021
A Java Example of an OAuth protected RESTful API
Contributions:2 reviews, 4 commits, 2 PRs in 5 years 3 months
javaoauthrestrestful-apiapi
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