Tom Mason
Principal Specialized Engineer, Applied AI In The Office Of The CTO (OCTO) at Google
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTom Mason is a Principal Specialized Engineer in Applied AI at Google Cloud’s Office of the CTO, combining deep product and platform experience to translate cutting-edge AI research into commercial lighthouse projects. With a decade of experience leading engineering and infra at frontier AI companies—most notably as CTO of Stability AI where he built DreamStudio.ai and scaled model training on one of the world’s largest supercomputers—he blends systems engineering, MLOps and product leadership. He’s led AI, data and platform teams across startups and enterprise-focused firms (from Chorus Intelligence to WeTrack and VPAR), consistently delivering scalable, mission-critical systems. Tom also cofounded and CTO’d multiple ventures, mentoring founders at the University of Cambridge and steering neurosymbolic efforts at Unlikely AI to improve explainability and reasoning. Known for turning research prototypes into usable platforms, he pairs a hands-on engineering mindset with C-level strategic influence across partners and customers. Based in London, he brings a rare mix of infrastructure scale-up experience and practical AI productisation.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at The University of EdinburghA-Levels: Maths Physics Computing Economics, A-Levels: Maths Physics Computing Economics at Eton College
English
Github Skills (45)
raymarching8
post-processing8
image-effects7
threejs7
java7
react-three-fiber7
graph7
android7
child-process7
filter6
composer6
react6
kotlin6
image-processing6
bubble5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
twmmason/disco
May 2022 - Jun 2022
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 93 pushes in 2 months
twmmason/pytriton-api
Jul 2023 - Jul 2023
Contributions:34 pushes in 17 days
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