David Hudson
Senior Systems Reliability Engineer - Team Lead at The Walt Disney Company
Cerritos, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Hudson is a Senior Systems Reliability Engineer and team lead with nearly two decades of hands-on experience designing, automating, and operating resilient cloud and on-prem infrastructure for high-profile media companies. Currently leading SRE efforts at The Walt Disney Company, he brings deep expertise in AWS, Java, Ruby, Chef, Jenkins and observability tools to streamline releases and reduce operational risk. His background spans release engineering, configuration management and automation across NFL Network and Edmunds.com, with a strong foundation in databases and performance tuning (MongoDB, Oracle, Redis). Trained as an astronomer (BS/MS, UCLA), he applies a methodical, data-driven approach to production reliability and audit-ready documentation, pairing scientific curiosity with pragmatic engineering. Notably, his career bridges both legacy enterprise systems and modern cloud-native architecture, making him effective at migrating and hardening complex estates.
19 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Astrophysics, BS, Astrophysics at University of California, Los Angeles
English
Github Skills (73)
ruby10
concurrency10
markdown10
rpg10
mongodb-driver10
jruby10
jvm10
java10
invokedynamic10
mongo-java-driver10
jruby-openssl10
jsinterop10
grails9
latex9
mapper9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jendave/starsmith-compendiums
Jul 2023 - Mar 2025
FoundryVTT compendiums of the Starsmith supplements for Ironsworn: Starforged by Eric Bright.
Contributions:44 releases, 25 PRs, 221 pushes in 1 year 8 months
foundryvttironswornstarforgedtabletop-rpgs
jendave/DND-5e-LaTeX-Template
Sep 2019 - Nov 2024
LaTeX package to typeset material for the fifth edition of the "world's greatest roleplaying game".
Contributions:30 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 3 months
greatesttypesetlatexroleplaying-gameroleplaying
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