Alex Shadley
CTO, Co-Founder at Mason AI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Shadley is a CTO and co-founder with 9 years of software engineering experience building production-grade systems for transportation and recruiting startups from San Francisco. He has a track record of shipping performant distributed systems—most notably optimizing multi-day vehicle routing for hundreds of vehicles at rideOS and implementing realtime ETA pipelines with Apache Beam and Google Dataflow. At rideOS he also led API-first design for customer-facing Dispatch services and prototyped a memory-efficient routing engine in Rust, demonstrating both product sensibility and low-level systems acumen. More recently he scaled into leadership as CTO of Mason AI after senior engineering roles at Gem, combining hands-on architecture with team and company-building. Comfortable across JVM, Rust, cloud-native orchestration, and data infrastructure, he often bridges algorithmic complexity and pragmatic production constraints. He also brings startup founding experience in recruiting tech talent, signaling a blend of technical depth and operational entrepreneurship.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of Kansas
Github Skills (60)
python-fire10
shell10
rust10
cli10
python9
flask-application9
bash9
command-line9
command-line-tool9
flask8
docker-container8
alpine-linux8
docker-image8
uwsgi8
cli-app7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
alexshadley/jammr
Mar 2020 - Apr 2020
Make music with your pals in real time!
Contributions:61 commits, 39 pushes, 1 branch in 28 days
musicmusic-playerspotifyreal-time
alexshadley/Spruce
May 2020 - Aug 2020
Spruce programming language
Contributions:100 commits, 8 PRs, 72 pushes in 3 months
sprucecompilertranspilerprogramming-languageinterpreter
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