Chief Technology Officer
Rob Mason has more than 20 years of operational, management, and software development experience across various companies, languages, platforms and technologies. A meticulous builder and obsessive tester, Rob’s teams produce innovative, robust software.
Prior to Applause, Rob was founder and executive vice president of engineering at Nasuni, where he took the company from initial product concept to more than 10 petabytes of managed storage consisting of billions of files in a global file system. Prior to Nasuni, Rob oversaw all development and quality assurance as the VP of engineering at Archivas.
Rob holds over 30 patents including several in the area of test automation. He has a Bachelor of Science degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an MBA degree with honors from Rutgers University. Rob lives on a horse farm in Massachusetts with his wife.
