David Mason
Technologist at Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat | Secrétariat du Conseil du Trésor du Canada
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Mason is a technologist with 13+ years of focused experience building web-based systems across government finance, health, human rights, and independent media. He combines hands-on full-stack development with systems design, automation, and testing, and has led engineering teams and hiring as an early technical hire at GovInvest. At the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat he champions open source, interoperability, decentralized identity, and privacy-aware, cloud-native practices while mentoring prototype-to-production delivery. His long-running work with Systems for People and eQualit.ie highlights a commitment to civic and participatory systems that scale beyond single projects. Based in Victoria, BC, he pairs practical infrastructure skills with a curious, research-driven approach—evidenced by contributions to semantic wikis and bioinformatics platforms—that helps translate complex domain needs into usable, standards-based software.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Concordia UniversityHacks and Hackers (Journalism and Data Hacking), Hacks and Hackers (Journalism and Data Hacking) at Peer to Peer UniversityProfessional Certificate, Foundations of Data Science, Professional Certificate, Foundations of Data Science at Berkeley on edX
French, English
Github Skills (200)
testing10
semantic-web10
automation10
integration-testing10
firefox10
api10
xlsx10
nodejs10
css10
owl10
web-testing10
chromium10
webkit10
csv10
xlsxwriter10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
withhaibun/haibun-web-accessibility-axe
Jan 2023 - Oct 2024
Contributions:1 review, 9 PRs, 60 pushes in 1 year 8 months
equalitie/devopsjs
Mar 2013 - Mar 2014
Contributions:181 commits in 1 year
in-progressbddnrpewikiwork-in-progress
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