Hudson Humphries
Software Development Engineer 2 at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolHudson Humphries is a software engineer with nine years of experience building observability and managed services at AWS, currently working on the Managed Service for Prometheus collector in Seattle. He progressed from an SDE intern who implemented OpenTelemetry C++ metrics features to SDE I on Managed Grafana and now SDE II, demonstrating deep expertise in telemetry, metrics, and backend systems. His open-source contributions to the widely used OpenTelemetry C++ SDK—implementing MeterProvider/Meter and testing metrics flows—reflect a strong focus on standards-based observability. Known for translating spec-level designs into production-ready integrations, he combines hands-on implementation skills with a practical understanding of cloud-scale monitoring.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Texas A&M UniversityLangham Creek High School
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Github Skills (9)
opentelemetry10
unit-testing10
c-language10
sdk10
cprogramming-language10
unit-test10
metric10
api-design9
distributed-tracing4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp
Jun 2020 - Aug 2020
The OpenTelemetry C++ Client
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 20 PRs, 52 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Hudson primarily contributed to the implementation and testing of the OpenTelemetry C++ SDK's metrics features. Their work involved defining and implementing core components, such as the `MeterProvider` and `Meter` interfaces, and integrating them with the SDK's structure. They also added example code to showcase the new metrics features. These contributions suggest a focus on expanding the core functionality of the metrics system.
apitracingsdktelemetryotel
HudsonHumphries/aws-otel-collector
May 2024 - Jan 2025
AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry Collector (see ADOT Roadmap at https://github.com/orgs/aws-observability/projects/4)
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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