Mason is currently a Developer Advocate at Gretel. Prior to his work at Gretel, he was a Developer Advocate at DigitalOcean. Prior to this he was an SRE helping build and maintain a highly available hybrid multicloud PaaS. He is an avid programmer, speaker, educator, and writer. He is an organizer of PyTexas and actively contributes to open source projects. In his spare time he enjoys reading, camping, kayaking, and exploring new places.