Daniel Mason
Founder at Fio's Quest
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Mason is a founder and seasoned software leader with 13 years of engineering experience and five years in technical leadership, including two years managing teams at Peloton. He blends hands-on systems work—shipping performance-focused Rust services and frontends built with cutting-edge Rust frameworks—with people-first management that grew teams, coached multiple promotions, and eliminated out-of-hours outages. At Beamery he led cross-team alignment, drove a move to passwordless authentication, and boosted test coverage from 50% to 80%; at Fio’s Quest he turned teaching into a product, creating a Rust curriculum and growing a YouTube audience rapidly. Known for advocating psychological safety and long-term developer growth, he also brings practical skills in videography, product optimisation, and continuous deployment. Based in London, he pairs entrepreneurial drive with a track record of turning complex engineering challenges into measurable business impact.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Computer Games Development (Software Engineering), MSc Computer Games Development (Software Engineering) at Abertay UniversityBSc Cybernetics, BSc Cybernetics at University of Bradford
English
Stackoverflow
6,488reputation
442kreached
95answers
35questions
docker-compose
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php
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firefox
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youtube
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amazon-cloudfront
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escaping
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Github Skills (200)
browser10
command-line-parser10
samd2110
static-site-generator10
ssg10
vercel10
css10
php10
packagist10
argument-parsing10
styled-components10
react-framework10
compiler10
server-rendering10
storybook10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
Gisleburt/Gisleburt.github.io
Feb 2016 - Mar 2025
Portfolio
Contributions:6 PRs, 102 pushes, 12 branches in 9 years 2 months
Gisleburt/vocab
Feb 2020 - Jul 2022
A command line tool for learning vocabulary in a new language
Contributions:1 PR, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
command-line-toolnew-languagevocabularyvocabulary-learning
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