Tom Mason
Developer at Powder
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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RockstarTom Mason is a Paris-based developer with 13 years of experience building performant back-end systems and game-engine features, currently helping scale Powder’s "Camera of the Metaverse" after a $14M Series A and 1.5M downloads in 10 months. His background spans game studios and tooling—contributions to open-source projects like OpenMW and a modern Diablo reimplementation show deep familiarity with core gameplay mechanics, rendering, and scripting. He’s also tackled cross-platform package management and stability work in foundational C libraries like nuklear and hunter, demonstrating fluency in low-level C, build systems, and platform portability. Known for pragmatic bug fixes and feature-driven refactors, Tom combines a games-first engineering mindset with production-grade dependency and build expertise.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (22)
c-language10
game-engine10
package-management10
scripting10
game-dev10
rendering10
build-system10
cmake10
c1110
render10
rpg10
c1710
front-end-development10
cplus10
cpp10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
wheybags/freeablo
May 2013 - Jun 2020
Modern reimplementation of the Diablo 1 game engine
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 1128 commits, 311 PRs in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Tom primarily focused on implementing features related to the Diablo I game engine's graphical user interface (GUI) within the modern reimplementation project. They added functionality to display sprite frames in the nuklear GUI framework and incorporated a pause menu. The changes involved modifications to the rendering and GUI manager components, utilizing image-based UI elements to create a functional, though rudimentary, user experience. Additionally, the user made code corrections and adjustments to the item handling.
gamemaker-studio-2gamemakersource-enginegame-developmentminetest
vurtun/nuklear
May 2017 - May 2018
A single-header ANSI C gui library
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 15 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Tom primarily focused on bug fixes and code improvements within the nuklear GUI library. Their contributions included correcting typoed function declarations, initializing and clearing memory in `nk_text_edit` structs, fixing plot function assertions, addressing Windows newline issues, and resolving scrollbar crashes. These changes suggest a focus on enhancing the stability and functionality of the library.
headergui-librarysingle-header-libsingle-headernuklear
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