Curtis Mason is a software engineer and co-founder with eight years of experience building production-ready backend systems and AI-driven products from early prototypes to YC-backed startups. As Co-Founder of GovDash (YC W22) he leads development of an AI platform that streamlines government capture and proposal workflows, replacing fragmented tooling to boost business development effectiveness. His background includes hands-on roles at Google and multiple startups where he shipped scalable APIs, caching and ETL improvements, serverless MVPs, and web crawlers that drove product discovery. Curtis pairs product-focused engineering with founder instincts—he moves quickly from concept to deployed service and has proven ability to support hundreds of users in production. Based in New York, he describes coding as his dopamine and brings an engineer’s delight for performance optimizations and automation to company-building.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Winter 22 Batch, Winter 22 Batch at Y Combinator
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Boston University
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