About

I’m a senior product developer and fullstack software engineer. I’m currently building useful tools for creators at Podia. I’m actively sharing my love and advocating for the Ruby programming language through various channels, such as Remote Ruby, Ruby for All, and Ruby Radar.

Speaker Bio

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Andrew Mason is an experienced senior product developer and content creator based in Phoenix, Arizona. His area of expertise is Ruby podcasting, and he is the co-host of both Remote Ruby and Ruby for All, as well as the co-creator and editor of the Ruby Radar newsletter.

Speaker

Andrew Mason is an experienced senior product developer at Podia and content creator based in Phoenix, Arizona. Passionate about the Ruby podcasting scene, Andrew co-hosts both Remote Ruby and Ruby for All and is the co-creator and editor of the popular Ruby Radar newsletter. In his spare time, he loves to mentor juniors and work on open source projects, as well as explore Arizona with his favorite activities of hiking and attending live sporting events. He is very interested in building Rails applications with components, mentoring juniors, podcasting, and ADHD. Talk to him about any of these topics!

Background

Growing up in North Carolina, I always had a strong interest in the field of computing due to chronic boredom and the unlimited possibilities the internet had to offer. In middle school, I began attending an after-school technology training program where I got my first experience with basic web development and learned how to fix and refurbish computers. All the computers we built went to families in need in the community. From this point forward, I would begin actively moving towards a job in tech.

In high school, I got deep into the world of Wordpress and learning ways to make money online, along with an increasing interesting in hacking and IT security. This is where I would take my first official programming course, Visual Basic, followed up by a year of Java.

I attended the University of North Carolina at Wilmington where I received a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science. Since graduating, I have had several years of professional experience in the software engineering and web development industry.

Support

Want to support my work in the Ruby community or on open source projects? All I ask is that you consume the content that I create, whether written, podcasts, etc. and let me know how I can improve!

You can also sponsor me on GitHub! I usually take the sponsorships I receive and put them right back into sponsoring other creators and maintainers.