Jake Mason
Software Engineer at Tranquility AI
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Mason is a pragmatic software engineer with 11 years of experience building backend-first systems and performance-focused tooling, currently contributing at Tranquility AI after leading architectural work at OpenGov. He has a strong track record modernizing legacy stacks and shipping production web projects—from founding CI pipelines and quote templates that improved delivery predictability at Firefly to architecting replacements for monoliths. Equally comfortable in backend systems and frontend touches, Jake pairs hands-on coding with mentoring and hiring practices that raise team standards. Outside of work he builds custom game engines and low-level tooling, reflecting a deep interest in performance and systems-level tinkering. Based in Knoxville, Tennessee, he blends practical product delivery with an engineer’s curiosity and a disciplined, results-driven approach.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science at Maryville College
Afrikaans, Spanish
Github Skills (34)
translation9
jam9
api9
neovim9
cpp9
data-structures8
stl8
graphical-user-interface8
vim-plugin8
imgui8
algorithms8
game-engine7
algorithm7
data-structure7
neovim-plugin7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jakemason/neovim-config
Aug 2022 - Jul 2026
Contributions:79 pushes in 4 years
jakemason/abbrv
Aug 2022 - Oct 2022
A text expansion solution for windows created for the Wheel Reinvention Jam 2022 hosted by the Handmade Network.
Contributions:6 releases, 59 commits, 2 PRs in 1 month
wxwidgetswindowshandmadejamhosted
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