Mason Walters

Data engineer in Austin.

Skeptic: It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. - Mark Twain
Analyst: If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. - Albert Einstein
Engineer: Science is about knowing, engineering is about doing. - Henry Petroski
Student: Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. - Soren Kierkegaard /now and /reading.

293.6 lb ↓ 26.4 since Oct 2020 last essay 1 day ago

I hold myself to the same standard — public weight, labs, and supplement evidence on Health →

Recent writing

June 17, 2026

Three stacks, one excuse to learn. My personal site is less a portfolio than a place to teach myself whatever I'm into that year.

June 17, 2026

The algorithm is fifteen lines of Ruby. It flagged stretches of my own data I had no memory of being stuck on.

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