Mason Fischer
Staff Software Engineer at KISSr
West Tisbury, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolMason Fischer is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building backend systems, currently driving engineering at Ideon after recent staff roles at Buoy Software and ezCater. He is a longtime founder and maker—running KISSr since 2011 and previously founding Veradical Engineering—bringing entrepreneurial rigor to product-focused engineering. Mason’s work spans Ruby and Rust ecosystems; he contributed to artichoke, a Rust implementation of Ruby, improving core hashing mechanisms and documentation for better performance and maintainability. Comfortable in both startup and scale-up contexts, he has deep hands-on experience building APIs, cloud-hosted services, and developer tools. Based in West Tisbury, Massachusetts, he combines a BS in Mathematics and Computer Science with a practical, systems-oriented approach to shipping reliable back-end software.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
mvrhsBS, Mathematics and Computer Science, BS, Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Vermont
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Github Skills (9)
rust-crates10
rust10
crate10
ruby10
programming-language9
wasmer6
wasmtime6
rust-wasm6
webassembly5
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
artichoke/artichoke
Nov 2021 - Nov 2021
💎 Artichoke is a Ruby made with Rust
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Mason contributed to the core backend functionality of the Artichoke Ruby implementation. Their work focused on the `artichoke-core` and `artichoke-backend` crates, specifically implementing and refining the `BuildHasher` trait and related hashing mechanisms. The user made modifications to incorporate a global hasher and addressed code review feedback, enhancing the project's data structures and overall performance. Furthermore, the user was also involved in documentation updates within the core project.
rubyrustartichokeprogramming-languagerust-application
KISSr/kissr_website
Mar 2016 - Feb 2025
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 1 month
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