Summary
Michael Hedgpeth is a seasoned software engineering leader and co-founder focused on transforming how engineering teams work with people. With a track record spanning Splunk, NCR, Radiant Systems, and Fair Isaac, he has built and led multi-disciplinary teams across the US and Europe, delivering scalable cloud and platform solutions while advancing people- and process-oriented tooling. At Splunk, he expanded the Platform Engineering and Quality Engineering functions to 45 engineers, migrated the cloud offering to OpenTelemetry-aligned metrics, and helped design organizations and processes that scale. He left Splunk in 2024 to pursue Hedge-Ops Software, a venture he co-leads with his wife to bring tooling to people management in engineering. His earlier impact includes slashing deployment failures by 97% through modern configuration management and driving PCI/SOC II automated cloud environments for high-stakes customers. Based in Boulder, Colorado, he holds a BS in Information Systems from the University of Texas at Arlington and an AA in MIS from Tarrant County College.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts, Management Information Systems, General, Associate of Arts, Management Information Systems, General at Tarrant County College
BS, Information Systems, BS, Information Systems at The University of Texas at Arlington
Spanish, French