Mason Remaley
Founder at University of California, Santa Cruz
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMason Remaley is a founder, engineer, and educator with 11 years of experience building game engines, tooling, and developer-facing systems from the ground up. Based in Portland, he leads a small studio creating a puzzle platformer on a custom engine and statically-typed scripting language that compiles an entire game in ~80ms and supports arbitrary hot-swapping. He has production and leadership experience as a tech lead at CTRL-labs (acquired by Oculus) and as a Google software engineer, and serves on the Zig Software Foundation board while contributing to the Zig compiler and standard library. Mason also teaches game and engine development at UC Santa Cruz, bridging practical production work with formal instruction. His open-source contributions span core language features and compiler fixes for the fast-growing Zig project as well as stability testing for Rust’s proptest, reflecting a focus on robust developer tooling. Known for combining low-level systems craft with design-driven game development, he thrives on shrinking iteration loops and empowering small teams.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at University of Maryland
Github Skills (10)
compiler10
compiler-compiler10
rust10
zig10
language-design10
testing10
continuous-integration9
standard-library9
travis9
lib9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ziglang/zig
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:71 reviews, 1 commit, 12 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Mason contributed to the Zig programming language project by implementing core language features and standard library enhancements. They implemented the prefix not operator translation and updated `std.meta.intToEnum` to support non-exhaustive enums. Additionally, the user fixed a bug in the `WriteFile.getFileSource` function and updated documentation. The user's contributions focused on improving the compiler, standard library, and overall functionality of the Zig language.
purposecompilertoolchainzigprogramming-language
proptest-rs/proptest
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Hypothesis-like property testing for Rust
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 6 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Mason primarily focused on testing and ensuring the stability of the `proptest-rs/proptest` repository. Their work involved intentionally failing tests to verify the effects of prior commits, specifically related to nightly builds and unstable features. They also made changes to address compiler errors, and reverts to revert changes. Their contributions centered on verifying the project's functionality and the proper configuration of features.
rusttestingproperty-testing
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