James Mason
Technical Architect, Public Cloud at SUSE
Bellingham, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJames Mason is a Technical Architect specializing in public cloud integrations with over three decades of software and infrastructure experience and 14 years focused on cloud and web engineering. At SUSE he designs and implements integrations across AWS, Azure, GCP and other providers, pairing deep systems administration and LAN architecture skills with Ruby on Rails web development expertise. He has a strong open-source pedigree—contributing backend fixes and improved testing strategies to projects like openSUSE/osem and the Azure Python SDK—demonstrating attention to reliability and testability. James combines hands-on provisioning and cross-platform infrastructure work with application-level improvements, able to move between VM-level operations and Rails code changes. Based in Bellingham, WA, he’s an active community member (LinuxFest Northwest, local Ruby group) who values continuous personal and professional growth. A detail that often surprises colleagues: he’s equally comfortable debugging XML serialization quirks in cloud SDKs as he is streamlining in-memory test databases for Rails apps.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Aa Computer Science, Aa Computer Science at College of the Desert
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Github Skills (20)
python10
azure-sdk10
testing10
rails10
microsoft-azure10
xml-serialization10
azure10
ruby-on-rails10
factory-bot9
rest-api9
database-management9
ruby8
event-emitter7
event-sourcing7
eventing7
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
openSUSE/osem
Apr 2014 - Jun 2020
Open Source Event Manager. An event management tool tailored to Free and Open Source Software conferences.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:295 commits, 302 PRs, 242 pushes in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:James contributed to improving the testing setup by suggesting and implementing an in-memory database for testing. They also added seed data for the in-memory test database. Furthermore, the user worked on adding event factories and related factories. These changes focus on improving testing and data management within the Ruby on Rails application.
eventsevent-managementrailsrails-applicationtailored
Azure/azure-sdk-for-python
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
This repository is for active development of the Azure SDK for Python. For consumers of the SDK we recommend visiting our public developer docs at https://learn.microsoft.com/python/azure/ or our versioned developer docs at https://azure.github.io/azure-sdk-for-python.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 7 PRs, 20 comments in 9 days
Contributions summary:James primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the functionality of the Azure SDK for Python, particularly within the azure-servicemanagement-legacy module. Their contributions included resolving issues related to the order of attributes in XML serialization for OS image updates and extending the API to handle more granular endpoints. They also added functionality to retrieve OS image details, incorporating replication progress information, and addressed broken links in the project's documentation. These changes indicate a focus on enhancing the existing functionality and reliability of the Azure SDK.
pythonversionedazure-functionssdkazure-python
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