Andrew Mason is a Senior Product Engineer with nine years of professional experience and 5+ years focused on full-stack Ruby on Rails development, currently building product at Podia. He has deep practical experience modernizing legacy Rails apps, shipping internal business systems, and improving developer workflows across CI/CD and DevOps (Heroku, Docker, Terraform). An active open-source contributor, Andrew has enhanced the popular Bridgetown static site framework—adding navigation, Tailwind integration, and Vercel-ready configuration—demonstrating front-end and configuration fluency. He pairs hands-on coding with mentorship and cross-team support, having onboarded engineers and led code reviews to raise team velocity. Based in Chandler, AZ, he brings a pragmatic, product-oriented mindset that balances shipping features, reducing tech debt, and improving test quality. An unexpected strength is his background in design and program coordination (from early roles in digital art and aquatics team leadership), which informs clear communication and user-focused solutions.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, General Ed, High School Diploma, General Ed at Salisbury High School
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science with a Concentration in Digital Art, Graduated, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science with a Concentration in Digital Art, Graduated at University of North Carolina at Wilmington
A next-generation progressive site generator & fullstack framework, powered by Ruby
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:12 reviews, 12 commits, 14 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the Bridgetown framework's frontend and configuration. They added a posts page to the new site template, enhancing user navigation. Additionally, they replaced a custom SVG insertion method with the bridgetown-inline-svg gem, and made various updates to the website's layout and components, including adding Tailwind content. They also configured the framework for Vercel deployment.
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