Stephen Masso
Data Scientist
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolStephen Masso is a data scientist with 13 years of experience applying rigorous analytics to entertainment and commerce problems, currently driving data initiatives at Meta from New York. He blends strong SQL and statistical foundations with product-focused analysis developed at Disney Streaming, Blue Apron, and other retail and research roles, often turning complex datasets into operational dashboards and KPIs. A pragmatic engineer, he has contributed to the Scala cats-effect runtime by improving error handling and refactoring core IO behavior—evidence of fluency in backend code quality and debugging. Stephen’s background in systems engineering and early research leadership reflects a habit of designing experiments and automations that surface actionable insights at scale.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Humboldt University of BerlinBSE, Systems Engineering, BSE, Systems Engineering at University of Pennsylvania
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (5)
asynchronous10
cats-effect10
scala10
error-handling9
typeclass8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
typelevel/cats-effect
May 2022 - May 2022
The pure asynchronous runtime for Scala
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 6 commits, 2 PRs in 6 days
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily focused on improving error handling and code quality within the `cats-effect` library. Their contributions included modifying the `IO.scala` file to improve error printing, specifically using `printStackTrace()` for better debugging. They also refactored code to reduce verbosity and addressed feedback related to the implementation of `unsafeRunAsync` and `unsafeRunAndForget`. Additionally, they made changes to the `PQueue` implementation.
asynchronousfunctional-programmingcontinuationtypeclassesruntime
ryhan/NLP-project
Feb 2013 - Mar 2013
Contributions:14 commits in 1 month
nlpanswerpythonnounlanguage-processing
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