Brandon Mason
Solutions Architect at Torchlight Software
Paonia, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Mason is a solutions architect and software engineer with 12 years of experience building full‑stack, cloud‑native platforms across industries from health insurance to e‑commerce and digital marketing. He combines hands‑on Node.js and Google Cloud expertise with systems thinking—designing resilient, observable architectures and automating deployment lifecycles with containers and Kubernetes. As a founder/operator at Torchlight Software and prior CTO/lead roles, he blends customer‑centric product strategy with mentoring and open‑source tooling for rapid prototyping and quality control. Known for tackling large data ingestion and scoring problems (hundreds of millions of points) and pragmatic R&D, he pairs startup lean methodology with a personal interest in sustainability, machine intelligence, and holistic systems. Based in Paonia, Colorado, he favors practical optimism—“hope is not a strategy”—and looks for what’s possible and who cares.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Engineering Technology, BS, Computer Engineering Technology at DeVry University Phoenix
Github Skills (200)
static-site-generator10
full-stack10
user-interface10
orm10
frontend10
declarative10
csr10
javascript10
hydration10
nuxt10
react10
loopback10
hybrid10
nuxt-template10
typescript10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
TorchlightSoftware/jsvillage.org
Feb 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:16 commits, 12 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 3 months
phoenix-frameworkjavascriptelixirphoenixshowcase
bitmage/vim-configuration
Feb 2015 - Jan 2021
Contributions:10 commits, 10 pushes in 6 years
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