Jamie Mason

About me

I'm Jamie Mason, I live in Leeds in the United Kingdom and I'm a front-end Developer specialising in JavaScript. I help companies of all shapes and sizes with their front-end architecture, performance, automated testing, tooling, workflow and process, and more.

Previously a Senior Designer/Engineer at BSkyB—one of the UK’s largest media organisations—I have designed and built many large, complex, high traffic Websites such as Sky Bet, Sky Vegas, and Sky Poker.

I am the developer of popular image optimisation tool ImageOptim-CLI and karma-benchmark: a tool to run jsperf.com style JavaScript benchmarks over multiple browsers and devices simultaneously.

I also;

• Am a Technical Reviewer for Smashing Magazine.
• Rebuilt the documentation site for the PhantomJS headless browser.
• Contributed many bug fixes, unit tests and additions to the AngularJS framework.
• Developed jasmine-matchers, a set of useful additions for the Jasmine test library.
• Planned and implemented the JavaScript architecture, automated testing, continuous integration and tooling for the latest phased redesign of Sky Sports.
• Researched then lead the Development of a single AngularJS platform to replace BSKYB's native real-time sports applications with a single HTML5 application framework.
• Developed an HTML5 application for a real-time content moderation and management platform for online communities, massively multiplayer online games, virtual worlds and traditional social media.