Hudson Akridge
Director Of Engineering Innovation
Littleton, Colorado, United States
Summary
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RockstarHudson Akridge is a veteran software leader and hands-on director with 17+ years building maintainable, domain-driven systems across .NET, AWS, Elasticsearch, and microservices. As Director of Engineering Innovation at Cox Automotive he blends individual contributor coding with strategic leadership, driving platforms like Runway and prior product launches that changed how dealers buy and sell cars. He has deep ORM and persistence expertise—contributing substantive fixes and features to the widely used Fluent NHibernate project—and routinely applies patterns like CQRS, event sourcing, and DDD to solve complex business problems. Hudson runs small consultancies and game-development engagements, showing a knack for adapting enterprise practices to startups and indie projects. He favors pragmatic technical choices over novelty, focusing on long-term maintainability, performance, and developer workflows. Based in Littleton, CO, he pairs public speaking and OSS experience with a daily appetite for learning and hands-on problem solving.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (11)
mappings10
fluentnhibernate10
fluent-api10
orm10
csharp10
nhibernate10
dotnet-core10
database9
database-connection9
server-configuration9
databases9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nhibernate/fluent-nhibernate
Apr 2009 - Sep 2020
Fluent NHibernate!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:41 commits, 2 PRs, 2 comments in 11 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Hudson's commits primarily focus on enhancing the Fluent NHibernate library, a C# ORM. They added features like support for `<any>` mappings, added functionality for concrete base types in AutoMapper, and improved ordering of elements during mapping output. Furthermore, they addressed issues concerning unsaved values and improved the correct setting of ManyToOne attributes for lazy loading and nullability, showcasing a deep understanding of the library's inner workings. They also refined database configuration aspects, ensuring proper driver settings and connection string handling.
dotnetc-sharpnhibernatecsharpfluent-nhibernate
HudsonAkridge/WigglyWizards_GameJam
Aug 2024 - Aug 2024
Contributions:3 PRs, 54 pushes, 12 branches in 9 days
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