Rob Mason SVP of Engineering, Applause

Applause App Quality, Inc., in digital experience quality, announced that Robert Mason has joined the company as SVP of engineering.

The addition comes just after Applause was recognized for its 186% growth rate on the Deloitte Fast 500, and its ranking as a leader in crowdtesting by Nelson Hall.

“We are delighted to welcome Rob as a new executive presence on our team,” said Doron Reuveni, CEO. “Applause is poised for massive growth, particularly on the engineering and development front. Rob’s experience as a leader capable of juggling responsibilities, having founded a company while working as its CTO and EVP of engineering, will be invaluable to Applause as we continue to direct our efforts toward the enterprise. We’ve built a strong, industry-leading engineering team over the years, and Rob’s leadership will continue to push our team, and our product, to new levels.”

Mason joins Applause from Nasuni where he held various executive roles, including founder, president, CTO and EVP of engineering.

Prior to his leadership at Nasuni, he worked as the VP of engineering at Archivas from 2004 to its acquisition by Hitachi in 2007, where he oversaw all development and quality assurance. After the Hitachi acquisition, he continued in his role as VP of HCAP Engineering, managing the integration of his team with Hitachi’s and supporting the broad rollout of HCAP.

“It is an exciting time to join Applause,” said Mason. “The company enters 2018 with high growth and a ton of momentum. I hope to harness this energy to bring an even more innovative focus to engineering and development moving forward.”

He has more than 20 years of operational, management and software development experience across many different companies, languages, platforms and technologies. He took Nasuni from initial product concept to over 10PB of managed storage consisting of billions of files in a global file system spanning more than 50 different countries.

He holds upwards of 30 patents including several in the area of test automation. He lives on a horse farm in Uxbridge, MA with his wife and many animals.

He has a Bachelor of Science degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Master of Business Administration degree with honors from Rutgers University.