Carlton Mason
Watson DevOps Architect
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolCarlton Mason is a seasoned software leader and DevOps architect, currently guiding IBM's Watson CI/CD strategy from Austin with a decade of hands-on experience. As Watson DevOps Architect, he provides technical direction, architecture, and cross-organization alignment to run a hosted self-service CI/CD platform enabling hundreds of developers to rapidly build, test, and deploy hundreds of containerized microservices thousands of times a month on IBM Cloud Kubernetes. Earlier at IBM, he transformed teams as an Agile, DevOps, Cloud Native Engineering Transformation Coach, delivering boot camps and coaching that boosted productivity by up to 50% and shortened delivery cycles from months to weekly or daily. His leadership history spans development management for WebSphere, security services, and cloud images, combining people leadership with hands-on software delivery across Java, SOAP/REST, and security domains. He is a Certified Scrum Master and has taught IBM's Disciplined Agile classes, holding a BS in Computer Science from Texas State University and an MS in Software Engineering from the University of Houston-Clear Lake. Based in Austin, Carlton brings a rare mix of enterprise-scale delivery discipline and cloud-native modernization to drive measurable business outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Texas State UniversityMaster of Science (M.S.), Software Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.), Software Engineering at University of Houston-Clear Lake
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Github Skills (104)
pipeline9
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tekton9
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grafana-dashboard9
cadvisor8
github-api8
ibm-watson8
jenkins-api-plugin8
jenkins8
tekton-pipelines8
copper8
kubernetes8
docker-compose7
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
carltonmason/carltonmason.github.io
May 2017 - Dec 2023
Contributions:137 pushes in 6 years 8 months
simple-websitebeautiful-jekylljekylljekyll-thememinutes
carltonmason/argocd-example-apps
Feb 2022 - May 2022
Example Apps to Demonstrate Argo CD
Contributions:5 pushes in 3 months
kubernetesargoargo-cd
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