Glenn Mason
I build and lead the engineering teams behind data-heavy platforms — payroll compliance, banking, market infrastructure. The kind of systems where being wrong is expensive and someone notices.
Right now I'm Head of Engineering at a pay-compliance company, re-platforming it to handle a lot more load without losing the accuracy that's the whole point. I've done this for about twenty years, from a two-person startup to Australia's stock exchange, and I still write code.
Core Competencies
Engineering Strategy & Leadership
Scaling engineering teams and the ladders, roadmaps, and decision records that keep them moving. I lead by giving people the context to make their own calls, not the instructions to follow mine.
Systems Architecture & Distributed Infrastructure
Designing event-driven, cloud-native systems for millions of users. Kubernetes (GKE/EKS), serverless, and distributed data pipelines (Spark, Kafka), with observability and running cost treated as part of the design rather than an afterthought.
Pragmatic Product Engineering
Shipping in thin, working slices instead of big-bang launches. I keep engineers close to the people using what they build, and lean on fast feedback and decoupled services so teams can move without tripping over each other.