# Mason Taylor

> Software Engineer

Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/masontaylor

Software developer passionate about user experience, entertainment, mental health, and education. Knowledgeable in C#, C, and Java.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ DailyPay, Inc.
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | New York City Metropolitan Area
· Worked as primary backend engineer for client facing portal using Ruby on Rails
· Designed, implemented, and iterated APIs for new client facing products
· Refactored portal from GraphQL to REST in order to better align with new React frontend
· Integrated CMS (Contentful) in order to unlock dynamic promotional material for clients
· Added improvements and enhancements to portal based on client feedback
· Fulfilled tickets for other teams as needed (Data Exchange, Core)

### Support Engineer @ DailyPay, Inc.
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | New York City Metropolitan Area
· Monitored support queue and rapidly responded to technical issues affecting daily business operations
· Investigated bugs and wrote scripts to manipulate production data
· Interfaced with operations specialists to quickly resolve tickets
· Pioneered role, led and trained new support engineers

### Junior Software Engineer @ Cyborg Inc.
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | New York, New York
· Worked in small 4 person team working on 2.0 version of enterprise grade lossless data compression
· Designed and implemented CI build pipeline and continuous test bench infrastructure using MySQL,
C#, and Azure DevOps
· Built static prefix dictionary generator for core compression algorithm using C

### R&D Software Engineer @ Check Point Software Technologies, Ltd.
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
Fix bugs and issues for legacy products
Rapidly research new tech stacks in order to create POCs
Develop consumer cybersecurity software using agile paradigm

### Game Designer @ Duke University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018
Led a 4 person technical team to create an interactive game to educate incoming first years about gender violence on campus

Collaborated with content contributors, technical team, and faculty to craft an engaging game

Optimized the flow of the game through organizing frequent play-testing, Unity proprietary tools, and
C# scripts

### Image Processor @ Duke University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
Worked on Ghissi Altarpiece project, a vertically integrated research project led by Ingrid Daubechies 

 Utilized suite of softwares to both regenerate and degenerate 14th c. and modern paintings, respectively

Tweaked MATLAB scripts to generate realistic crack patterns

Combined Maya and Photoshop to model gold leaf and punch Barista


## Education
### Bachelor of Sciene in Engineering in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Duke University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/masonctaylor

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Last updated: 2026-03-23