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Rob Mason

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.

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What is Agentic AI?

What is Agentic AI?

Learn what differentiates agentic AI from generative AI and traditional AI and how agentic raises the stakes for software developers.
4 Ways Software Test Teams Can Gain Value From Gen AI

4 Ways Software Test Teams Can Gain Value From Gen AI

See how software testers can incorporate generative AI into their workflows to save time, boost productivity, and free themselves up for more creative or strategic tasks.
5 Ways Software Developers Can Use Gen AI to Boost Efficiency

5 Ways Software Developers Can Use Gen AI to Boost Efficiency

Discover 5 practical ways software developers can leverage Generative AI to enhance productivity, streamline workflows, and improve code quality.
Mitigating the Billion-Dollar Bug: Lessons From Outages

Mitigating the Billion-Dollar Bug: Lessons From Outages

Learn how to mitigate the risk of billion-dollar bugs by implementing multi-vendor redundancy, comprehensive testing and transparent processes.
How Gen AI is Transforming Software Development

How Gen AI is Transforming Software Development

Generative AI is fundamentally changing the ways many people work – especially software engineering teams.
Four Ways Crowdtesting Drives Operational Efficiency and Cost-Effective Development

Four Ways Crowdtesting Drives Operational Efficiency and Cost-Effective Development

Read about the ways crowdtesting can help firms produce high-quality digital experiences while keeping costs in check
What is the Metaverse? And What Isn’t It?

What is the Metaverse? And What Isn’t It?

It’s not far-flung sci-fi anymore — the metaverse is here, and it requires companies to rethink their approach to UX and testing
Manage Test Cases More Easily with Applause’s TestRail Integration

Manage Test Cases More Easily with Applause’s TestRail Integration

Maintain test cases and results across platforms
Q&A on Codeless Test Automation with Forrester’s Diego Lo Giudice

Q&A on Codeless Test Automation with Forrester’s Diego Lo Giudice

Overcoming the test automation plateau with new models and methods
How eBay’s, Walmart’s Engineering Teams Tackle Test Automation

How eBay’s, Walmart’s Engineering Teams Tackle Test Automation

Learn how these leaders think about coverage, what metrics they value, and how they shift testing to the left
Agile Testing Solutions and Where to Find Them

Agile Testing Solutions and Where to Find Them

What's holding you back from true Agile development?
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