Deary Hudson is a Senior Software Engineer based in Houston with 11 years of experience building scalable back-end systems and data pipelines. He has deep hands-on experience at startups and scaleups, from early engineering at Knotch to leading technical work at Gerry and most recently creating digital infrastructure for 529 payments at Backpack. As a contributor to InfluxDB, he improved HTTP APIs, storage features, and data integrity—work that speaks to strong API design and production-grade datastore understanding. He also co-founded Buyable, applying AI-driven credit risk models to originate profitable auto loans, showing an ability to blend product, ML-driven risk, and engineering. Comfortable across data engineering and core back-end services, he’s known for shipping pragmatic solutions that bridge analytics needs and resilient systems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of Houston-Downtown
Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:24 commits, 44 PRs, 179 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Deary primarily contributed to the InfluxDB back-end, focusing on enhancing the HTTP API and implementing features related to data storage and management. They fixed critical bugs in the HTTP endpoints, ensuring proper error handling and data integrity. Furthermore, the user added functionality for unique variable names within the key-value store, along with the integration of support for new chart types. Their work demonstrates a solid understanding of the project's core functionality and API design.
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
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Deary Hudson - Senior Software Engineer at Backpack