Shaun Mason
Staff Engineer at Praos Health Inc.
Findlay, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolShaun Mason is a Staff Engineer with 10+ years of hands-on experience building scalable, production-grade systems from embedded beginnings on a Commodore 64 to modern cloud-native services. He has led engineering efforts at startups and established companies—designing CI/CD, Kubernetes infrastructure, SDKs, and async task queues—and recently contributed to the TypeScript/OpenAPI ecosystem through back-end work on the popular tsoa project. Known for stabilizing complex manufacturing and product environments early in his career, Shaun combines systems thinking with pragmatic delivery and a knack for improving developer ergonomics. Based in Findlay, Ohio, he balances deep implementation skills with product-focused collaboration, informed by unique early involvement with EA SPORTS and long-running CTO responsibilities for a gaming community.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering at Ohio Northern University
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Github Skills (19)
apidoc10
typescript10
api10
typescript-types10
nodejs10
typescripts10
api-design9
restful-api9
api-rest9
openapi9
rest-api9
multimedia6
html6
vbnet6
php6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
lukeautry/tsoa
Nov 2016 - Jun 2017
Build OpenAPI-compliant REST APIs using TypeScript and Node
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 8 PRs, 2 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Shaun contributed to the back-end of the `tsoa` repository, which focuses on building OpenAPI-compliant REST APIs with TypeScript and Node.js. Their commits included feature implementations such as support for modifying compiler options and making compiler options consistent. They also addressed bug fixes, such as handling union types, showcasing a focus on the core functionality of the API generation process and the underlying TypeScript compilation. These changes demonstrate an understanding of the library's internal workings and the broader API development ecosystem.
apicompliantnodejsrestrest-api
liveshopper/liveshopper-sdk-ios
Nov 2019 - Sep 2020
iOS SDK for LiveShopper, the real time insight platform
Contributions:9 releases, 18 PRs, 52 pushes in 9 months
realtimeios-sdksdksdk-for-iosswift
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