I help Connecticut businesses solve technical problems — the process that eats a day a week, the two systems that won't talk to each other, the thing everyone works around instead of fixing. Sometimes the answer is custom software. Often it's simpler, and I'll tell you when it is.
A one-person studio run by Mason Lapine, a software engineer in Connecticut. I'd rather solve your problem than sell you a project. A development shop quotes you a build because building is what it sells — I'll tell you when the fix is a setting, a tool you already pay for, or an afternoon of automation, and charge you for the afternoon.
Not a spec. If one of these sounds like your week, that's a good enough place to start — working out what it actually needs is my job, not yours.
The recurring copy-paste, the spreadsheet somebody maintains by hand, the report that eats a morning. Usually the cheapest thing on this page to fix, and the one that pays back fastest.
Your booking tool, your invoicing, your mailing list and a spreadsheet all holding a different version of the truth. Usually solvable without replacing any of them.
When you've genuinely outgrown the available tools — and only then. A custom app, dashboard, portal or desktop program, built to be maintained rather than demoed.
Slow, dated, invisible on Google, or impossible to update without calling somebody. Rebuilt properly, or sometimes just repaired — I'll tell you which you need.
A monthly service looking after email, passwords, and online safety for older and non-technical people — delivered entirely by phone, with a real person they can call.
AI writes a lot of code these days — the difference is knowing what's worth writing at all. Every line that does get written is reviewed, tested, and integrated by an actual engineer.
We start with what's actually going wrong, not a tech stack. Often the real problem isn't the one you called about.
A setting, a tool you already pay for, an automation, or a real build — in that order. Quoted at a fixed price so scope can't drift.
AI to move fast, engineering judgement to steer it. Secure, tested, and built to be maintained rather than demoed.
Deployed, documented, and explained — so you aren't dependent on me. Ongoing support if you want it, not because you're stuck.
Most of what I build is for businesses. This one isn't. It's a monthly service for older and non-technical people — looking after their email, their passwords, and the accounts with their name on them, so a scam call or a forgotten login doesn't turn into something much worse.
It runs on the same engineering: automated breach monitoring, an AI-assisted scam-check inbox, and a plain-English report that goes to the client and their family every month. Delivered entirely by phone and screen share, and deliberately limited to a small number of clients.
Every plan includes unlimited scam checks, breach monitoring, and a monthly summary to a named family contact. Delivered entirely by phone and screen share, anywhere in the country.
Years of shipping real software across security, education, and enterprise.
Delivering digital education across Salesforce, Coursera, and online.yale.edu. Redesigned a Poorvu Center website in-house (saving ~$20,000), cut roughly 4 weeks of consulting time on Coursera course redesigns with custom-built tools, and built a compliance-check tool that automates the process and saves ~$20,000 annually.
Built and managed automations and backend core services in Python 3, AWS, and Docker, and modified frontend applications in React and JavaScript. Leveraged AI and prompt engineering to develop faster and more precisely — increasing automations by 60% (saving ~3.5 FTE hours/day) and cutting the highest-value task's effort by 60%.
Developed a web application to manage client profile data — a React frontend and Python backend — learning to develop, test, and integrate secure code into a production toolset.
Managed and developed RIT web applications on both frontend and backend — adding features and fixing bugs on sites like eServices and TigerCenter.
Built a web portal to track company technical data — a PHP/jQuery/MySQL frontend backed by a Windows PowerShell script querying Active Directory.
Specialized in web application development and database modeling. Served as a TA for the intro to databases course, tutoring and grading students through MySQL.
Hands-on training in generative AI and large language models — fine-tuning and practical, production-focused applications. Verify credential ↗
Open-source work and personal builds — more on GitHub.
An AI-powered Linux distro — talk to your computer in plain language instead of code.
An OpenAI-powered pocket assistant with firmware that runs on the M5Stack Cardputer.
A retro-style platformer built in Lua for the Pico-8, published and playable on the Pico-8 forums.
A remake of the classic card game Egyptian Rat Screw, built in Lua for the Pico-8.
An intelligent task manager that keeps work organized and moving.
A personal budgeting tool for tracking and planning finances.
Tell me what's going wrong and I'll tell you honestly what it would take to fix — including when the answer is “less than you think” or “not me.” If it needs properly scoping first, I do that as a short paid piece of work and credit the fee against whatever we build.
