Mason Prey
Senior Quantitative Developer
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMason Prey is a Senior Quantitative Developer with a decade of software engineering experience, currently focused on quantitative systems at Balyasny Asset Management after hands-on roles building supply chain optimization tech at Amazon. He blends low-level systems and DevOps chops—evident from contributions to slim, a tiny VM-from-Dockerfile tool adding health checks, attach/SSH, and lifecycle commands—with production-grade quant development. Comfortable across backend, cloud, and trading infrastructure, Mason has progressed from intern to senior engineer at top-tier firms, shipping reliable, scalable services under real-world constraints. His background includes teaching operating systems and freelance full-stack work, giving him both academic grounding and product-facing instincts. Based in New York, he pairs rigorous CS fundamentals from UT Austin with practical engineering that bridges research, tooling, and deployment.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Stackoverflow
1reputation
517reached
1answer
2questions
Github Skills (22)
docker10
command-line-interface10
dockers10
virtualization10
command-line10
ssh10
cli10
automation9
go9
automations9
shell8
sh8
system-administration8
script8
scripting8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ottomatica/slim
Dec 2019 - Dec 2019
Build and run tiny vms from Dockerfiles. Small and sleek.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 6 comments in 8 days
Contributions summary:Mason primarily contributed to enhancing the `slim` project with new features and improving existing functionality. They implemented a health check feature and corresponding command, allowing users to verify the status of VMs. Furthermore, the user added an attach command, enabling direct SSH access to VMs, and a start command for managing VM lifecycles. Their work also included refactoring the storage location and integrating health checks before the attach command.
vmsdocker-machinetinycloud-initdocker
mprey/h1z1brawl
Jun 2017 - Apr 2020
Head-to-head gaming website
Contributions:6 commits, 10 pushes, 3 comments in 2 years 10 months
gamegamingheadhtml5
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