Mason Chen is a software consultant and engineer with a decade of experience building event-driven, cloud-native systems across New Zealand's banking and travel tech sectors. He has specialized in event streaming and Confluent Cloud Kafka implementations, most recently enabling enterprise-grade streaming platforms at Kiwibank and now at ASB Bank. Mason’s background spans backend platform engineering, observability, service discovery and serverless payments microservices, giving him deep experience in reliable production services. He pairs hands-on development with pragmatic architecture choices, having built shared platform services and mobile ERP components earlier in his career. Comfortable working independently or as part of cross-functional teams, he bridges product needs and platform capabilities to accelerate delivery. Based in Auckland, he combines commercial banking domain knowledge with a computer science honours degree to solve complex distributed systems challenges.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Auckland Grammar School
Bachelor of Science - BS (Honours), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS (Honours), Computer Science at The University of Auckland
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer science & information system, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer science & information system at 新西兰奥克兰大学
Contributions:18 releases, 173 commits, 10 PRs in 3 years 7 months
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