Alex Mason
Sr. Specialist Functional Engineer at Tweag, the OSPO of Modus Create
Canberra, District of Canberra Central, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Mason is a senior functional engineer with 17 years' experience specialising in Haskell, concurrent programming and geospatial web services, currently driving functional engineering at Tweag. He has a strong track record in industry and research, from Data61/CSIRO and SEEK to Liquid Instruments and ASX, and helped build the AREMI web mapping backend under ARENA funding. A decade-plus Haskell practitioner and founder of Canberra's functional programming meetup CanFP, he contributes to notable open-source projects including amazonka, improving its performance and code quality. Combining a Masters in Cyber Security with hands-on R&D and production engineering, he marries formal-methods-informed design with pragmatic, maintainable backend services.
17 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National UniversityMelba High SchoolCopland CollegeUNSW Sydney
Github Skills (13)
bitwise10
compiler-optimization10
monad-transformers10
bit10
functional-programming10
assembly10
code-generation10
aws10
assemble10
haskell10
assembler10
llvm10
ghc10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
brendanhay/amazonka
Jan 2019 - Jan 2022
A comprehensive Amazon Web Services SDK for Haskell.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 5 commits, 3 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Alex contributed to the `brendanhay/amazonka` repository, which is an AWS SDK for Haskell. Their commits focused on improving the library's internal structure and functionality. The changes included adding a `PrimMonad` instance, refactoring code to use `Data.Map.Strict` and `Builders`, and employing pointfree style for cleaner code definitions. These modifications likely improved the library's efficiency and maintainability.
haskellamazonsdkweb-servicesamazon-web-services
axman6/irc-core
Dec 2016 - May 2024
Haskell IRC library and console client - Join us on Freenode #haskell-irc
Contributions:7 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 5 months
freenodeconsolehaskellirc-librarysasl
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