Jacob Hudson
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Vortexa
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolJacob Hudson is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building automation, monitoring, and cloud-native platforms for high-traffic applications. He has led Kubernetes adoption and cost-optimization efforts, written production Golang tooling to streamline CI/CD and AWS integrations, and pioneered integrations between Terraform and Ansible to enable self-service infrastructure across large teams. Jacob combines deep monitoring expertise (Splunk, DynaTrace) with practical security and developer-experience improvements—such as default HTTPS ingress and auditable STS token tooling—to make systems safer and easier to operate. Early career rotations and university-scale network support honed his ability to learn complex systems quickly and communicate cross-functionally, a trait he leverages when teaching workshops or democratizing SRE practices. Based in Chicago, he pairs a pragmatic infrastructure mindset with a continual drive to automate repeatable work and reduce toil.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Industry Certifications, CCNA, A+, CCNA Security, 4.00/4.00, Industry Certifications, CCNA, A+, CCNA Security, 4.00/4.00 at Illinois Central CollegeUniversity of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignDiploma, Information Technology, Overall GPA: 3.40/4.00 IT GPA: 4.00/4.00, Diploma, Information Technology, Overall GPA: 3.40/4.00 IT GPA: 4.00/4.00 at Pekin Community High School
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Github Skills (34)
efk10
elasticsearch-cluster10
ansible-module10
akamai9
aws9
elk9
fluentd9
elasticsearch8
terraform-module8
logstash8
kibana8
terraform8
integrations7
ansible7
python7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jacob-hudson/WSL-bootstrap
Sep 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:42 commits, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
jacob-hudson/jacob-hudson.github.io
Jul 2016 - Jun 2020
Website for GitHub Pages
Contributions:2 PRs, 31 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years
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