Zeb Mason
Director at Stoch Answers Ltd
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolZeb Mason is a director and software engineer with deep expertise in computational geometry, FEA/FVM/BEM, fatigue and fluid analysis, and epidemiological modelling, blending over two decades of CAD/CAM/CAE domain experience with hands-on coding. He has delivered production-grade engineering software across Rolls‑Royce, Siemens, and startups, and now runs Stoch Answers Ltd, providing stochastic and deterministic consultancy across epidemiology, finance and engineering. A mathematician by training, he pairs rigorous numerical methods with practical multi-threaded C++/Qt and Python implementations, having modernized legacy codebases and build/test systems repeatedly. Notably, he contributed to the widely used CovidSim microsimulation by refactoring and improving maintainability and test workflows, reflecting a focus on code quality in critical open-source models. Colleagues rely on him for API design, automated geometry generation and integrating FE workflows into commercial CAD environments. He operates from Sheffield and brings a blend of academic grounding and pragmatic engineering that surfaces in both large enterprise and niche consultancy projects.
9 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Mathematics, BSc, Mathematics at The University of ManchesterMSc, Mathematics and Computing, MSc, Mathematics and Computing at Teesside University
Github Skills (6)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
architecture9
testing9
architectures9
python7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mrc-ide/covid-sim
May 2020 - Sep 2020
This is the COVID-19 CovidSim microsimulation model developed by the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis hosted at Imperial College, London.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:31 commits, 35 PRs, 147 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Zeb primarily focused on refactoring and optimizing the codebase. Their contributions involved removing unused code, restructuring struct definitions, and renaming structs for better readability. They also modified testing scripts to allow for extra flags during integration tests, potentially improving the testing process. These changes suggest a focus on code quality, maintainability, and improving the development workflow.
infectious-diseaseimperial-collegehostedmrcdisease
zebmason/GoFRefactored
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:49 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 9 days
golangrefactoringsgof
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