Bryan Mason
Principal Software Maintenance Engineer at Red Hat
San Carlos, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBryan Mason is a Principal Software Maintenance Engineer at Red Hat with 14+ years of experience in system-level software support, maintenance, and development. He blends deep Linux system administration expertise with hands-on C/C++, Perl, Python, and shell scripting to diagnose and resolve complex technical issues quickly and reliably. At Red Hat he has progressed from Senior Technical Account Manager to principal engineer, contributing to critical open-source infrastructure such as CUPS by enhancing job management, decompression filters, and CGI permissions. His background also includes Windows development (Visual Basic, MFC) and web stacks (Apache, PHP, MySQL), giving him a rare full-spectrum troubleshooting capability across platforms. Based in San Carlos, CA, he pairs practical product support leadership from Fujitsu with ongoing open-source engineering, and he’s also a licensed private pilot—reflecting a methodical, detail-oriented approach both on the ground and in the air.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BS, BS at Santa Clara University
Github Skills (7)
c1710
printing10
ip10
print10
linux10
c1110
cups10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
OpenPrinting/cups
Mar 2021 - Oct 2021
OpenPrinting CUPS Sources
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 7 commits, 6 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Bryan contributed to the CUPS project by modifying core scheduler files and the CGI interface. Their work involved adding a decompression filter for raw files, implementing functionality for job hold-until attributes, and adjusting user permissions in the CGI interface. The commits focused on enhancing the job management capabilities and adapting the system's handling of various file types.
printing3d-printerlinuxprinterbsd
bmasonrh/cups
Mar 2021 - Oct 2023
OpenPrinting CUPS Sources
Contributions:30 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 7 months
cupssources
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