Summary
Will Mason is a seasoned software engineer and leader with over 20 years of hands-on experience building web platforms, APIs, and developer tooling, and 14 years of formal industry experience. He co-founded and ran technical teams at startups (including vibe.me) before helping grow Twilio from ~60 to 7,000 employees, where he led web infrastructure, architected unified gateways and config stores, and championed early containerization and CI/CD. Will combines deep full-stack craft—servers, databases, frontend frameworks, and deployment systems—with a strong product sensibility and a history of shipping high-impact internal tools like Headsup and OwlsHQ. He’s comfortable both mentoring teams and diving into low-level engineering, evidenced by founding a PHP/JS framework and frequent rapid deployments during product iterations. Based in Westlake Village, CA, he enjoys automating workflows and architecting large distributed systems while keeping a maker’s curiosity that started building computers at age seven. Now at Sublime Security, he’s focused on applying that entrepreneurial, systems-first mindset to secure, scalable products.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Sciences, Computer Sciences at Los Angeles Pierce College