Mason Tang

me@masontang.com

Education
Massachusetts Institute of M.Eng. Computer Science and Engineering, September 2011 Technology Cambridge, MA GPA: 5.0 / 5.0 Thesis: Caesar: A Social Code Review Tool for Programming Education Massachusetts Institute of S.B. Computer Science and Engineering, June 2010 Technology Cambridge, MA GPA: 4.9 / 5.0

Professional Experience
September 2011 present Google Software Engineer UI infrastructure developer on the Google Web Server, Googles web search frontend June 2010 August 2010 Google Software Engineeringthe Google Calendar Android application Intern Java, Mobile, Android 0 Worked on 0 Implemented scrollable calendar widget in Honeycomb and beyond 0 Implemented timezone selection for calendar events in Gingerbread and beyond 0 Implemented calendar search in Honeycomb and beyond June 2009 August 2009 Amazon.com Software Development Engineer Intern Java, Mobile, Blackberry 0 Worked on Kindle for Blackberry 0 Implemented many UI components for the in-application store 0 Researched and implemented efficient request signing and encryption June 2008 August 2008 Amazon.com Software Development Engineer Intern monitoring software for proprietary software and services Java, Perl, SOAP 0 Worked on internal distributed 0 Refactored and improved the performance of the existing monitoring service stack January 2008 March 2008 IBM Software Developer Co-op Javascript, AJAX, Java, Spring, Hadoop 0 Worked on the Spectacular! feed reader, an AJAX-driven web application for reading feeds aggregated by a large distributed feed crawler driven by Hadoop 0 Developed client-side web applications with jQuery and RESTful data APIs for internal developer use 0 Wrote Hadoop jobs for generating interesting and novel metrics from corpus of crawled feed data March 2007 September 2007 MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Undergraduate Research Opportunity Javascript, AJAX 0 Won the Microsoft Research iCampus Technology Innovation Student Prize for work on the Javascript-powered Course Picker ( http://picker.mit.edu) 0 Code contributor for Exhibit, a lightweight structured data publishing framework 0 Primary developer for Timegrid, a semantic Javascript-powered date/event visualization tool

Skills

JUnit 0 Python general purpose scripting, Django web development 0 SQL querying and management, schema design and normalization 0 Web standards-compliant XHTML and CSS, client-side and server-side AJAX, Javascript, jQuery 0 UNIX/Linux administrating FreeBSD and Linux servers, configuring Apache and Tomcat 0 Perl general purpose scripting, web development with CGI, DBI, regular expressions 0 Ruby general purpose scripting, Rails web development

0 Tools Eclipse, vim, Emacs, LATEX

Miscellaneous Beta Pi and Phi Beta Kappa 0 Member of Tau

PDF to Word

0 Classical pianist with 10 years of lessons, guitarist for 5 years

0 Dancer with 5 years of experience in hip-hop, breaking, and popping