Sam Mason
Casual Academic at School of Mathematics and Statistics, UNSW
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolSam Mason is a data science and machine learning expert with 11 years of experience building scalable analytics and AI solutions across government, media, and mobile industries from Sydney. Currently completing a PhD in spatio-temporal species modelling while tutoring and supervising masters projects at UNSW, he combines academic rigor with hands-on engineering leadership from roles at Nearmap, Willow and the ABC. He has led data strategy and big-data platform builds (AWS, Spark, Redshift, Snowplow) and presented solutions at industry events including AWS Summit and SXSW. A former Google engineer now at KyronLearning on GitHub, Sam is equally comfortable shipping production systems and mentoring teams, and brings a rare mix of mobile, cloud and ecological modelling expertise that bridges applied research and operational analytics.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Waverley CollegeUNSW Sydney
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Github Skills (118)
ruby10
html10
nginx10
mongoose9
linux9
cloud-sql9
vertices9
mvc9
http9
activerecord9
pip9
ingress-controller9
responsive9
css9
jekyll-theme9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
CloudVLab/resque
Oct 2018 - Jan 2023
Resque is a Redis-backed Ruby library for creating background jobs, placing them on multiple queues, and processing them later.
Contributions:3 reviews, 6 PRs, 5 pushes in 4 years 3 months
redisresquerailsqueuesbackground-jobs
gt-big-data/retina-crawler
Sep 2014 - Apr 2015
A news crawler for the Retina Project
Contributions:39 commits, 5 PRs, 15 pushes in 6 months
crawler
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