Summary
Tara Mason is a Senior Application Engineer based in Fort Collins, Colorado, with a decade of experience crafting front-end experiences and leading cross-functional squads to deliver customer-facing sustainability tools. She blends hands-on React/JavaScript development with product-minded leadership—writing clear Jira stories, maintaining design systems, and fostering FE/BE collaboration to reduce API churn. Tara’s background spans independent contracting for enterprise CMS migrations, university web systems with accessibility compliance, and earlier roles in design and real estate that sharpen her UX sensibility and project management. Currently at Osaic and running her own web studio, she pairs pragmatic engineering with client-facing communication and a knack for turning ambiguous requirements into bite-sized, shippable work. Notably, her active GitHub is private, suggesting much of her recent work is commercial or proprietary rather than public open-source.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Interior Design, Commercial Design, Bachelor of Arts, Interior Design, Commercial Design at The Art Institutes, located in Phoenix
Web Development, Web Development Immersive, Web Development, Web Development Immersive at Galvanize Inc
The Art Institute of Colorado