Mason Katz
Architect at Teradata
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMason Katz is an experienced architect and software engineer with nearly two decades designing distributed, networked, and cloud-native systems from embedded devices to large-scale cluster management. A co-founder of StackIQ and original author of the open-source Rocks Clusters toolkit, he has repeatedly turned academic research into production-grade automation for HPC and datacenter deployments. His recent work focuses on Go-based microservices, REST/gRPC APIs, and integrating storage backends like Ceph and S3 for snapshotting and private cloud management. At Teradata and SoftIron he led teams enabling Kubernetes and bare-metal deployments for machine learning workloads and re-architected core services for scale and operability. Early experience building GPS-synchronized weather sensors and lock-free MPI transports gives him a rare low-level systems perspective that informs pragmatic, performant architectural decisions. Based in San Diego, he blends hands-on development with strategic technical leadership across acquisitions and productization efforts.
19 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Arizona
Github Skills (33)
bare-metal10
redhat10
suse10
rocks10
centos10
linux10
provisioning10
sles10
ethernet9
changelog9
command-line-tool8
jira8
gitlab7
kernel7
cli7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Teradata/stacki
May 2015 - Jul 2020
Linux Cluster Builder - Bare Metal Red Hat & SUSE
Contributions:31 releases, 654 commits, 46 PRs in 5 years 3 months
bare-metallinuxredhatsusestacki
endobit/builder
Jan 2023 - May 2026
Contributions:53 pushes, 3 branches, 17 tags in 3 years 4 months
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