Steven Mask is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building customer-facing web and iOS products, currently leading Venmo Web engineering and driving cross-organization innovation at PayPal/Venmo. A pragmatic generalist who prefers frontend and iOS work, he has shipped SDK integrations and payment flows—contributing front-end features like Apple Pay support to the widely used paypal-checkout-components project. Steven blends hands-on implementation with technical leadership, mentoring teams to deliver quality and speed and introducing Scrum practices across organizations from startups to Fortune 50. His background in architecture and teaching, plus a transition from practicing architect to software leader, gives him a rare mix of design sensibility and systems-level engineering judgment.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Architecture, Bachelor of Science, Architecture at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Masters, Computer Science, Masters, Computer Science at University of Illinois Springfield
please submit Issues about the PayPal JS SDK here: https://github.com/paypal/paypal-js/issues
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:118 reviews, 156 commits, 113 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Steven primarily focused on front-end development within the `paypal/paypal-checkout-components` repository. Their contributions included implementing features for Apple Pay integration, such as adding Apple Pay buttons, styling, and integrating payment flows. They also worked on general UI improvements, including styling modifications for button taglines, as well as refactoring and updating button components and related configurations. Furthermore, they contributed to handling and displaying custom styling.
Contributions:8 reviews, 12 commits, 28 PRs in 3 months
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Steven Mask - Senior Staff Software Engineer at Venmo