Brian Mason
Distinguished Engineer at Nephrolytics, Inc.
Vancouver, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Mason is a Distinguished Engineer with 11+ years of experience building production-grade data and AI systems, currently focused on AI-generated nephrology summaries and high-throughput multi-LLM pipelines. He blends deep systems engineering—Kubernetes, Golang, CI/CD, and cloud storage—with hands-on model evaluation (Llama 3, GPT-4o, Gemini) to deliver clinician-facing features that improve provider effectiveness. His background spans storage and data management at NetApp, container/product work at Slim.AI, and long-running leadership in embedded and enterprise systems, giving him a rare mix of low-level storage expertise and modern ML deployment skills. Brian routinely mentors junior engineers, architects secure, scalable services, and has a track record of rescuing and industrializing challenging products and proof-of-concepts. Based in Vancouver, Washington, he pairs formal CS training with a customer-first engineering approach that prioritizes practical value over novelty.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MSCS Computer Science, MSCS Computer Science at University of Illinois Springfield
English
Github Skills (40)
deduplication10
backup10
go10
api-client9
sdk9
api9
rest-api8
rest8
generator8
vsphere8
restful-api7
spec7
java7
scala7
rest-client7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
NetApp/restic
May 2021 - Jun 2022
Fast, secure, efficient backup program
Contributions:2 reviews, 10 PRs, 25 pushes in 1 year 1 month
securenetapp-publicbackup
bmason42/elogui
Mar 2019 - Feb 2020
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch, 8 comments in 11 months
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