Kelly Mason

About Kelly Mason

Software Engineer that enjoys turning complex problems into shippable increments, driving decisions, and building consensus. Across my range of experience, I\'ve consistently excelled at delivering on ambiguous, high-stakes work with tight timelines.

Experience

1. Software Engineer

   GitHub

   Jan 2021 — Present

   Led technical initiatives serving millions of developers globally. Drove cross-functional alignment, made pragmatic architectural decisions, and delivered complex features under enterprise customer deadlines.Cross-Functional Leadership & Delivery- Led 6-engineer team to deliver enterprise-critical feature on a tight timeline: organized work tracking, drove technical decisions with limited information, and coordinated across platform teams to ship on schedule- Established team\'s first on-call rotation from scratch: built consensus across stakeholders, implemented supporting tooling, and created sustainable processes still in use today- Defined testing standards for GitHub Pull Requests department: led department-wide discussion on frontend testing strategy, documented decisions, and created actionable implementation planProduct Impact at Scale- Enabled GitHub Projects to scale from 1,200 to items by building query parsing infrastructure for enterprise search: technical work that unblocked beta launch and enterprise revenue growth- Unblocked launch of Advanced Search for GitHub Issues feature used in millions of monthly queries: redesigned filtering architecture across full stack to enable end-to-end testing and quality assurance- Fixed critical bug in Pull Requests within 2 months of joining team: debugged and resolved issue affecting every PR created on GitHub, in highly sensitive code pathTechnical Contributions- Implemented critical pieces of GitHub Projects\' Elasticsearch migration (query compilation, multi-version compatibility, re-indexing tooling), enabling search to scale from 1,200 to items- Established performance monitoring and observability for new search features: created dashboards and alerting to ensure reliability at scale- Improved latency across Pull Requests workflows by implementing performance optimizations for GitHub\'s highest-traffic product surface

Education

• The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Psychology

Skills

• Special Education
• Curriculum Design
• Teaching
• Nonprofits
• Instructional Design
• Elementary Education
• Lesson Planning
• Education Policy
• Curriculum Development
• Leadership
• Social Media
• Educational Leadership
• Staff Development
• Literacy
• Classroom Management
• Program Development
• Student Development
• Tutoring
• Community Outreach
• Educational Technology
• Data Analysis
• Classroom
• Teacher Training
• Public Speaking
• Rti
• Differentiated Instruction
• Research
• Powerpoint
• Microsoft Office
• Editing
• Event Planning
• Microsoft Excel
• English as a Second Language (Esl)
• Education
• Customer Service