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Software engineer · portfolio
B.S. Computer ScienceMinor in Entrepreneurship
Mason Potter
Open to software engineering roles · Oklahoma City · remote-friendly
Previously Software Developer III @ Paycom · PHP | React | Full Stack | ATS (past)
Full-stack engineer with enterprise ATS delivery at scale (Paycom), founder experience through CloutSites, and a track record modernizing complex web systems for real businesses.
Oklahoma City, OklahomaKansas State UniversityDecember 2022Open to roles
For recruiters & hiring managers
What to scan in under a minute
Most recent enterprise work: Paycom ATS (PHP/React, ~1.6M documents/week, Selenium regression). Before that: CloutSites founder delivery and a 100+ page healthcare modernization. Open to full-stack and platform-facing roles.
- Paycom · Software Developer III · ATS
- PHP · React · Selenium · SQL
- Kansas State · B.S. Computer Science · Dec 2022
About
Background recruiters care about—plus the human context.
I care about systems that scale, interfaces that feel intentional, and engineering tied to measurable outcomes. I am between full-time roles by choice—still building, still interviewing, and prioritizing teams where curiosity and craft matter.
I am based in Oklahoma City. My background blends enterprise software, independent consulting, healthcare web operations, and hands-on projects across mobile, databases, and the web.
Most recently, I spent time at Paycom on applicant tracking systems work at serious scale: co-developing web applications that handled on the order of 1.6M documents per week, and tightening automated regression coverage with Selenium until test runs dropped from hours to minutes.
Before that, I founded CloutSites LLC and led end-to-end client work—everything from UI and content systems to integrations, analytics, and the unglamorous IT glue that keeps a business running. Client work is paused while I focus on independent projects.
Outside of work, I geek out on hardware, games, watches, and good design. I travel often—sometimes for nature, sometimes for cities—and I like bringing those aesthetics back into how I think about product and interface design.
Kansas State UniversityComputer Science, Minor in Entrepreneurship · Graduation December 2022
3.0 GPA, 3.0 Major GPASTAR Economics, competitively selected based on academic performance / Student Finance Association / Entrepreneurship Study Abroad / Hack K-State participant
Advanced courseworkArtificial Intelligence / Social Media Analytics and Web Mining / Database Systems / Programming Language Theory / Algorithms and Data Structures
Technical skills
Languages, stacks, and practices from shipped work.
Front-End & Web
Interactive interfaces and modern web delivery.
- React
- Bootstrap
- CSS
- HTML
- Responsive Design
- Wix
Backend & Data
Business logic, persistence, and integrations.
- NodeJS
- Firebase
- MySQL
- NoSQL
- Google Auth
Engineering Practice
Maintainable software and workflow quality.
- Git
- Object Oriented Design
- Selenium
- Database Design
- SEO/SEM
Experience
Roles and outcomes—most recent first.
Software Developer III - ATS Team
Paycom Payroll LLCPast role: enterprise applicant tracking software focused on complex hiring workflows and high-throughput document systems.
ATSPHPReactSeleniumEnterprise Software
- Co-developed web applications supporting weekly throughput on the order of 1.6M documents.
- Optimized and expanded Selenium regression suites, reducing total testing time from hours to minutes.
- Delivered full-stack improvements across PHP, React, and related application layers for ATS workflows.
Founder
CloutSites LLCIndependent consulting and end-to-end web work for businesses. Client work is paused and not accepting new clients while I focus on independent projects.
ConsultingFounderPaused
- Owned delivery from discovery to deployment: UI, content, integrations, hosting, and support.
- Built practical systems for marketing, operations, and day-to-day business workflows.
Web Developer & IT
Hays Medical SpaModernized a healthcare web presence and supported the technology operations behind a growing medical practice.
HealthcareWixGoogle AnalyticsSEO/SEMIT
- Rebuilt and modernized a 100-page medical practice website using Wix.
- Implemented advanced booking functionality plus Google Ads and Google Analytics integrations.
- Supported SEO/SEM campaigns that drove thousands of monthly visits and meaningful incremental revenue.
- Maintained office information systems for 20 employees, including email, payroll, and EHR tooling.
Associate / Associate Intern
Financial Partners GroupBlended web maintenance, digital marketing, financial research, and systems modernization in a financial services setting.
FinanceJavaScriptCRMMarketingResearch
- Updated and maintained the firm's website using HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and the Wix platform.
- Created and distributed marketing materials through social media, newsletters, and digital ad campaigns.
- Maintained data systems, migrated CRMs, and modernized passwordless authentication.
- Researched and presented funds, ETFs, and assets using Morningstar, WealthScape, and Orion platforms.
Independent projects
IndependentFocused stretch for portfolio work, structured learning, and selective conversations—not concurrent full-time employment.
Side projectsLearningOpen to roles
- Exploring document parsing and data pipelines as an engineering exercise (FinSignal Engine—personal).
- Shipping and refining this portfolio as a living codebase (React, TypeScript, Vitest, Vercel).
Featured projects
Selected work—pipelines, products, and production sites.
FinSignal Engine
Personal exploration project
A fun personal project exploring how to parse complex SEC filings for real-time financial signal processing—focused on data plumbing, not trading advice.
- What it is
- A small, personal repository focused on ingestion and parsing workflows for SEC-style disclosures, treated as an engineering exercise in messy real-world documents.
- What is intentionally private
- Trading strategies, proprietary datasets, and any performance or yield claims stay off the public internet. The public story is architecture and data handling, not returns.
- Technical shape
- Emphasis on Python modules for extraction, normalization, and testable parsing steps, with clear boundaries between 'raw document', 'parsed fields', and downstream experiments.
- Why it exists
- It is a playground for quantitative finance curiosity: learning how institutional-grade data hygiene feels in code, without turning a portfolio site into a finance blog.
PythonData pipelinesDocument parsingSEC text (research)
SLIP
Contactless Contact Sharing
An Android app for seamless contact exchange using phone-to-phone and phone-to-RFID chip communication.
- Problem
- Sharing contact details quickly in person should not require a fragile chain of QR screenshots, AirDrop roulette, or manual typing.
- Approach
- Built an Android-first experience with Google Auth for accounts, Firebase for persistence, and RFID-oriented flows for tap-style exchanges.
- What shipped
- A working prototype path for authenticated profiles, secure sign-in, and serverless persistence suitable for demos and iteration.
- What I would improve next
- Threat modeling for contact exchange, tighter pairing UX, and clearer abuse-resistance constraints for public deployments.
KotlinFirebaseGoogle AuthRFIDNoSQL
Airline DB
Simple UI for Complex Database Schema
A collaborative database project with a MySQL backend, relational schema design, and a UI for complex queries.
- Goal
- Demonstrate database design discipline and query thinking with a UI that exposes non-trivial joins without hiding the underlying model.
- Backend work
- MySQL schema creation with primary and foreign keys, relationship mapping, and careful normalization choices for reporting-style queries.
- Frontend work
- A simple UI layer focused on clarity: showing how complex SQL maps to user-visible results and edge cases.
- Outcome
- A credible academic artifact for schema + query competence, with a clean narrative for technical interviews.
MySQLSQLDatabase DesignUI
Medical Spa Overhaul
100-page Healthcare Website Modernization
A full web modernization effort for a medical practice, pairing website UX with booking, analytics, and marketing systems.
- Business context
- Medical practices live at the intersection of patient trust, scheduling friction, and marketing measurement. The site has to be credible, fast, and easy to operate.
- What changed
- Rebuilt and modernized a large Wix site (100+ pages), improved booking flows, and wired up Google Ads and Google Analytics for meaningful performance visibility.
- What I owned
- Hands-on web work plus practical IT support across email, payroll, and EHR-adjacent tooling for a growing team.
- Results framing
- Drove thousands of monthly visits and incremental revenue through SEO/SEM execution—exact figures stay in resume conversations when needed.
WixGoogle AdsGoogle AnalyticsSEO/SEM
Personal Site
Portfolio & travel log (this site)
A modern single-page portfolio: engineering highlights, résumé-adjacent credibility, travel context, and personality—easy to update from structured content.
- Why it exists
- A single URL that works for recruiters and friends: credible engineering signal without sanding away personality.
- Engineering choices
- React + TypeScript + Vite, content centralized in one module, production build checks, and responsive layout tuned for real phones.
- What it optimizes for
- Fast iteration: travel chapters, project case studies, and career updates should be editable without rewiring the layout.
ReactTypeScriptViteCSS
Contact
Open to conversation about roles, collaborations, or ideas worth a reply.
I am most interested in conversations with people building useful products, sharp tools, weird experiments, or teams where curiosity is part of the work. If there is a role, project, collaboration, or idea worth kicking around, send it my way.
Beyond the code
What rounds out the engineer behind the résumé.
Custom High-Performance Hardware
Systems thinking outside of software: performance, constraints, and clean builds.
Hiking & National Parks
Long days on sandstone and ridgelines—Zion, Angels Landing, Garden of the Gods, and the kind of trails where exposure and payoff show up in the same mile.
Quantitative Research
A natural overlap between finance, data, probability, and better decisions.
PC Gaming & Hardware Modding
Competitive matches, survival games, and the endless side quest of tuning a rig—thermal headroom, clean cable runs, and small upgrades that make everything feel snappier.
Curiosities
Side experiments & ongoing learning
Informal R&D—not a product roadmap or role requirement. Nothing here is trading advice or a performance claim.
SEC filing parsing
WhatStructured text extraction from long, messy regulatory documents.
WhyGood practice in real-world data hygiene, normalization, and testable parsing pipelines.
Quant finance (hobby)
WhatLightweight research workflows around market structure and disclosure signals.
WhyA playground for probability, careful assumptions, and separating signal from story.
Options greeks (learning)
WhatStudying how derivatives sensitivities behave as inputs move.
WhyBuilds intuition for risk, convexity, and how models behave under stress.
Python data pipelines
WhatSmall batch jobs: ingest, clean, validate, and version outputs.
WhyThe boring middle of data work is where reliability is won or lost.
UI / UX craft
WhatTypography, spacing, motion, and interaction details on this site.
WhyPolish is a forcing function for clarity—if the UI is fuzzy, the thinking probably is too.
Horology
WhatMechanical watches as tiny engineered systems.
WhyA reminder that constraints, tolerances, and finishing details compound into something you can feel.
Travel log
Places that shaped perspective—study abroad, cities, and trails.
Optional context—adaptability and follow-through outside the office. Skip if you are short on time; experience and projects above are the hiring signal.
United States & nearby
Trips close to home: Kansas roots, national parks, domestic city stops, and occasional warm-water escapes.
United States
Highlights across the Lower 48—outdoors first, cities when the schedule allows.
Manhattan, KS (MHK)
Skydiving out of MHK: a ridiculous amount of fun, a clean horizon, and a good reminder that adrenaline pairs well with small-town runways.
skydivingK-State countryfriends
National parks & sandstone
Spring 2026Utah and Colorado at full scale: Zion for towering red walls, Garden of the Gods for surreal rock geometry, and the kind of hiking days that feel like resetting the OS.
Highlights
- Zion National Park, UT
- Garden of the Gods, CO
ZionGarden of the Godshikinglandscape
City hops
Quick domestic runs when you want energy without a passport: Miami heat and humidity, Dallas sprawl and steakhouse logistics, both good for people-watching.
MiamiDallascity energy
Mexico & the Caribbean
Warm water, slower clocks, and coastlines that look edited even in real life.
Mahahual, Mexico
Tropical coastlines and relaxed beach-town energy—good tacos, easy snorkeling, and the kind of blue water that makes you stop checking your phone.
beachMexicoslow travel
St. Martin / Sint Maarten
Island hopping energy: vivid blue water, coastal roads, and the small delight of two cultures sharing one rock.
Caribbeanislandcoast
Europe
Study abroad in Italy, then return trips for autumn cities and canal skylines—architecture, food, and how different cultures approach craft.
Italy · Summer 2022
Florence as a home base while studying at FUA and working in the FLY lab—then weekends that turned into a greatest-hits loop across Italy.
Florence
Renaissance streets as daily context: studying fashion at Florence University of the Arts (FUA) and spending real time in FLY (Fashion Loves You), FUA's creative retail space and lab.
FUAFLY labRenaissancefashion
Rome
Classic historic weight: big monuments, busy piazzas, and the kind of scale that makes you feel small in the best way.
Colosseumhistoryarchitecture
Pisa
The quintessential leaning tower shot—and the silly joy of watching everyone do the same pose from slightly different angles.
Pisaiconstravel comedy
Coastlines: Amalfi & Cinque Terre
Amalfi for sweeping drops and drama, Cinque Terre (Monterosso) for cliffside color and tight coastal trails—Italy doing what Italy does best.
Amalfi CoastCinque TerreMonterossocoast
Venice
Canals as infrastructure: tight alleys, vaporetto logistics, and golden light bouncing off brick and water.
Venicecanalslight
France · Fall 2024
Paris
Classic Parisian architecture and heavy-hitters like the Eiffel Tower and Arc de Triomphe—plus the smaller moments: cafés, late walks, and the rhythm of a city built for flaneuring.
Parisarchitecturecafés
The Netherlands · Fall 2024
Amsterdam
Biking culture, historic brick buildings, and golden sunsets reflecting off canal skylines—movement and texture everywhere you look.
Amsterdamcanalsbikesgolden hour
Rotterdam
A sharp architectural shift from Amsterdam: modern rebuilt skyline, maritime energy, and a city that feels intentionally future-forward.
Rotterdamarchitectureharbor
Asia
High-energy cities, deep tradition, and meals worth building an itinerary around.
South Korea · Early 2025
A loop built on contrast: neon density and temples, then slower coastal sprawl.
Seoul
High-energy cityscapes, vibrant streets, and striking historic temples set against a modern skyline—tradition and tech culture in the same frame.
Seoultemplesnight city
Busan
Sprawling coastal views and relaxed seaside energy—markets, ocean air, and a slower gear after Seoul.
Busancoastmarkets