Delisa Mason
Distinguished Engineer at Bugsnag
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDelisa Mason is a Distinguished Engineer with 15 years of hands-on experience building developer-facing tools and production backends, currently leading engineering at Bugsnag. She combines a strong Ruby and full-stack background with native Electron and iOS experience, having contributed to well-known open-source projects like xcpretty, ranger, and multiple Bugsnag clients. Delisa excels at improving developer UX—adding colorized build output, image previews in terminal file managers, and robust error-reporting plumbing—and she frequently balances feature work with thoughtful refactors and test improvements. Her career spans startups and product teams where she shipped APIs, native apps, and UI components, and she brings a designer’s sensibility to software ergonomics. Colleagues rely on her for solving tricky integration and build problems, and she’s as comfortable shipping backend delivery queues as polishing client-side presentation. Fun detail: when not debugging build output or crash reports, she might literally be eating a sandwich while coding.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Otterbein College
Japanese, English
Github Skills (48)
error-reporting10
objective-c10
ruby-rails10
debug10
previews10
javascript10
bugzilla10
debugging10
viewer10
python10
bug-tracker10
electron10
scripting10
console10
laravel-mix10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
alcatraz/Alcatraz
Apr 2013 - Sep 2016
Package manager for Xcode
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:198 commits, 28 PRs, 27 pushes in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Delisa contributed significantly to the Alcatraz Xcode package manager. Their work focused on enhancing the user interface and adding functionality, including filtering by package type, and integrating features like a status bar with a progress indicator. They also addressed usability improvements by setting default selections and handling screenshot display. Furthermore, the user was involved in refactoring parts of the codebase, including the integration of a new progress indicator and handling the display of packages in the UI.
macosswiftpackage-managerxcode
xcpretty/xcpretty
Dec 2013 - Aug 2018
Flexible and fast xcodebuild formatter
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:178 commits, 26 PRs, 30 pushes in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Delisa primarily contributed to the project by adding features related to colorization and formatting of Xcode build output. They implemented options for colorizing the binary and integrated color-coding into the simple and RSpec printer classes. Furthermore, the user introduced support for pending tests within the output and contributed to expanding the output format of the project. This suggests an active role in improving the user experience and features of the Xcode build output.
beautifierswiftioscontinuous-integrationxcodebuild
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