Will Mason Email & Phone Number

Westlake Village, California, United States

Remote, Usa, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

Over the 11+ years I spent at Twilio, I worked in many roles, from product launches and mentorship, to side creations that became part of Twilio’s internal identity. I started as a Senior Software Engineer and left as a Senior Technical Lead.Roles & Teams- Hired for Web Team (responsible for all web properties)- Promoted to Tech Lead for UX Team- Built & led the Web Infrastructure Team- Drove re-org of Web & API teams as Senior Technical LeadNotable Projects- Launched multiple Twilio Website redesigns- Implemented web stack modernization- Built International SMS Web Interface (received award for this launch)- Built the UI/flow for Two Factor Auth- Helped launch many other products (too many to list)- Built Stargate, a web gateway for federating all product web properties- Built Starmonkey, a web gateway for federating internal web properties- Built Raven, a versioned, promotable key/value store used to manage Stargate/Starmonkey routing configs and many other use cases- Architected Gateway Rest API, the unified, config-driven, replacement to the web, monkey, and api gateways- Containerized (nearly) all roles for all my teams- Adopted (early) CI/CD pipelines for our projectsNotable Side (Tweek) Projects- Built Headsup: An office TV display management system, controlling thousands of displays worldwide- Built HootHoot.tv: A SMS/web based shoutout service for recognizing co-workers, displayed on Headsup TVs around world and was a highlight of our CEOs all-hands for many years- Built OwlsHQ: An employee directory with photos, available through API, web, SMS, and chat apps- Built Twitter/SMS LED board, hung in Twilio HQ since 2013Awards & More- Received Superb Owl Award in 2012 for International SMS- Promoted to Tech Lead for UX in 2013- Member of Twilio Magic Awards Team (employee recognition committee)- Member of the Parliament of Wise Owls- Called by CEO while on PTO to respond to the biggest security incident in Twilio history

Responsible for technical vision and execution from servers, databases, development framework, and a RESTful API to front-end programming, mark-up, and style implementation. I took a new approach to web apps for development by turning vibe.me into a JavaScript app (all markup templates loaded on landing) with data and business logic accessed via the API. This approach not only improved the "perceived" speed of the site but also paved the way for mobile apps, an open API, and 3rd party development.The forward facing site is served using dbdMVC (PHP Web Framework) & dbdMVC.js (JS Web Framework) while the API is provided via dbdMVC which is backed by MySQL for a data store and secured using OAuth.Taking a lean & agile approach, I implemented and evolved a continuous deployment system and built tools to tighten the customer feedback loop. Sometimes deploying to production 20+ times in a day.Built the Vibelight: an Arduino controlled LED sign to hang in our office which blinks, chirps, and displays stats about the vibe.me community and the latest repository commits. Just plug in an ethernet cable and it fetches all its data from the API.

In addition to leading a team of developers & guiding designers, I was responsible for creating our entire development process. With strict personal standards for high quality output, I championed standards compliant design as well as built the development framework everyone used for our projects. Server & database administration as well as release management were all part of my duties.Successfully completed & delivered 30+ Client Websites/Apps from concept to completion. I helped translate from Photoshop mock-up to production-ready solutions using best practices (HTML/CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, etc), cutting edge techniques (dbdMVC, dbdMVC.js, AJAX, etc), and the best tools...all while constantly evolving our process, frameworks, internal tools, and knowledge of tech startups.Since our first project, I built a PHP Framework (dbdMVC) to enable rapid prototyping and remove some of the less-than-fun aspects of building websites. dbdMVC handles all requests, creates search engine friendly urls (routes), manages assets (HTML templates, CSS, JS, and images), and creates a database abstraction layer to lessen the amount of SQL written for querying the DB. Recently I created dbdMVC.js (a JavaScript port) to build a new breed of web applications.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

After NewCars.com was acquired by Cars.com, I continued to be responsible for the dealer lead system as well as various reporting tools for our search engine biding system. I also wired the entire office and maintained workstations for 30+ employees.I lead many project meetings with corporate and grew into a larger team consisting of fellow developers, QA Analysts, Project Managers, Producers, & consumers.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Responsible for webmastering the three consumer facing sites. Eventually transitioned into building internal tools and managing the servers & local network. I built the sales, reporting, and management tools for the direct to dealer lead delivery. This is where I fell in love with PHP & MySQL.