Austin Mason
Software Engineer at Figma
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolAustin Mason is a software engineer with a decade of experience building full-stack web applications and real-time collaborative systems, currently shaping design tools at Figma. He led sync and multiplayer engineering at Evernote and helped pioneer browser-based motion design using React, Rust, WebAssembly, and WebGPU at Modyfi. Comfortable across front-end, systems, and storage layers, he’s shipped performance improvements, feature toggles, and UX refactors on high-visibility projects, including contributions to The Odin Project’s main website. Austin blends logical, data-driven problem solving with practical prototyping—earlier internships produced ML classifiers for phishing detection and OpenCV prototypes for biometric transit authentication. Based in San Diego and trained at UC San Diego, he has a track record of taking ambiguous problems to robust production solutions. His background suggests a particular strength in synchronizing complex state across clients while keeping UX and performance front of mind.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
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Github Skills (8)
rails10
ruby-on-rails10
javascript9
html9
css9
proj8
odin8
ruby7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
TheOdinProject/theodinproject
Apr 2017 - Aug 2022
Main website for The Odin Project
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:319 reviews, 125 commits, 362 PRs in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Austin made several contributions focused on enhancing the user interface and improving the overall user experience of the website. They updated the FAQ section by adding a question regarding course certificates and modifying existing content. Furthermore, the user refactored the navbar and also added validation and feature toggles. The user also addressed issues with the codebase, such as merging changes, fixing bugs and applying performance improvements.
ruby-on-railscurriculumcssjavascriptruby
TheOdinProject/rails_course
Nov 2017 - Sep 2018
Home of The Odin Project's rails curriculum
Contributions:112 commits, 91 PRs, 92 pushes in 10 months
rails
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