About Me

Hi there! My name is Mason.

I was born and raised in Canada, but I live now in New York City. I spend most of my daylight hours hours working at a proprietary trading firm. Most of my time at work is spent thinking about what hardware the company should have in its servers, including CPUs, storage, GPUs, or something even more exotic. The other portion of of my work time is spent on improving the overall experience of folks at the company who use Linux.

Previously, I studied Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and Engineering and Public Policy (EPP). In ECE, I took a mix of IC design and computer architecture classes (technically, mostly IC design classes for my master's degree, and computer architecture classes for my undergraduate degree). In EPP, I mostly did data analysis to understand how technology innovations might affect road networks and public transportation. I also took a few physics classes as a part of my interest in practical implementations of computing with very, very, small things.

Since graduating, I haven't gotten up to much. It's been an ongoing goal of mine to try to pick up new hobbies, but I still haven't quite gotten around to it yet, unfortunately. In the meantime, I do a little bit of running, biking, reading, and coding.

Want to chat about something? Feel free to email me at [email protected].

About this blog

This blog is generated by nu, a static site generator written in C that I worked on from 2016 to 2020. I don't really expect to update the code much in the future - my C skills weren't the greatest back then, and deciphering that code is just a mess. In any case, it mostly works for now, so I don't really need to touch it.