Mason Slaughter

Forward Deployed Engineer · Navarre, FL

Not a mockup — a real terminal. Run it yourself → · plain resume · resume.json

Text version of the session above

visitor@mason:~$ whoami

  Mason Slaughter — Forward Deployed Engineer
  Navarre, FL · ships production software and AI systems for real customers

visitor@mason:~$ skills --top

  Python · JavaScript · Transformer fine-tuning (DeBERTa-v3-large) · Render · WCAG accessibility remediation

visitor@mason:~$ projects --shipped

  AI-Text Detection Platform     ClearTextAI Inc. (SaaS)
  Killer Whale                   Authorized-pentest toolkit (solo project)
  Web Design & Booking Systems   wiredbyfriday.com (solo venture)

visitor@mason:~$ sudo hire-mason

  ✓ permission granted — mslaughter1205@gmail.com

visitor@mason:~$ _

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Summary

Builder-operator with hands-on experience shipping production software and AI systems for real customers, from fine-tuning transformer-based classifiers to deploying full websites and booking systems for local businesses. Background in skilled trades and customer-facing service roles built strong diagnostic instincts and the ability to translate technical work into plain language for non-technical clients. Seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer role where shipping fast in front of customers is the job.

Technical Skills

Area	Tools
Languages & Web	Python · JavaScript · HTML/CSS · Astro (static site framework)
AI/ML	Transformer fine-tuning (DeBERTa-v3-large) · Hugging Face · Dataset curation · Classifier evaluation (FPR-budget thresholding)
Deployment & Tooling	Render · Vercel · Stripe billing · Clerk billing · Git
Other	WCAG accessibility remediation · Compliance implementation (CA Automatic Renewal Law)

Professional Experience

Plumbing Technician · Paradise Home Services

^{Emerald Coast, FL — Mar 2025 – Present}

• Perform residential service calls: diagnostics, repairs, and installations directly in customers' homes.
• Translate technical findings into plain-language recommendations for homeowners; pursuing Florida Certified Plumbing Contractor license (DBPR/CILB).

Keyholder / Food Runner · Dewey Destin's

^{Navarre, FL — Mar 2023 – Mar 2025}

• Oversaw food-running staff during service; handled POS operations, order-taking, and high-volume customer service.

Lube Technician · Hampton Hyundai

^{Apr 2024 – Jun 2024}

• Performed oil changes, tire rotations, and multi-point inspections; completed the Hyundai LMS training program.

Shift Lead · Ronny's Car Wash

^{May 2021 – Mar 2023}

• Led shift operations and equipment upkeep; first job promoted to a leadership role at 17.

Technical Projects & Ventures

AI-Text Detection Platform · ClearTextAI Inc. (SaaS)

^{2025 – Present}

• Contribute to a deep-learning classifier for AI-generated text detection: DeBERTa-v3-large fine-tuning pipeline with curated academic corpora and false-positive-rate budget thresholding.
• Built and shipped the production marketing site (Astro static site); led WCAG accessibility fixes and California ARL compliance disclosures.
• Evaluated and architected billing/discount infrastructure across Clerk Billing and Stripe Checkout.

Killer Whale · Authorized-pentest toolkit (solo project)

^{2026 – Present}

• Built a full-stack control surface (Python/Flask backend with server-sent-event streaming, vanilla-JS dashboard) that orchestrates recon, web-app, TLS, and packet-capture tooling and chains them into one-click workflows.
• Designed a defense-first safety model: no targeted tool runs unless the host is on an authorization allowlist, offensive tools stay locked behind a Lab Mode switch, and a scoped sudoers allowlist runs root tools without running the app as root.
• Generates per-target findings with plain-English run summaries, exportable as a Markdown report.

Web Design & Booking Systems · wiredbyfriday.com (solo venture)

^{2025 – Present}

• Design, build, and deploy fast-turnaround websites for local service businesses; built a custom booking scheduler (book.wiredbyfriday.com) hosted on Render.
• Own the full customer cycle solo: sales outreach, scoping, build, deployment, and support.

Education & Training

• Technical Program — Automotive Technology · Radford M. Locklin Technical College · 2022 – 2024
• High School Diploma · Homeschool · 2019 – 2024
• Hyundai LMS training program · Hyundai

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How this repo works — one JSON file, three outputs, zero dependencies

resume.json ──▶ scripts/build.mjs ──┬──▶ README.md        (what you are reading)
                                    ├──▶ dist/plain.html  (print / save as PDF)
                                    └──▶ dist/index.html  (terminal, type `help`)

resume.json is the only source of truth. Edit it, push, and all three outputs update. No frameworks and no dependencies — the build is a single Node script and the terminal is vanilla JS.

npm run build   # regenerate README.md and dist/
npm run serve   # preview the terminal at http://localhost:8080
npm run check   # CI guard: fails if README.md drifted from resume.json

CI runs npm run check on every push, so this README can never go stale, then deploys dist/ to GitHub Pages.