Summary
Michael Fudge is a Professor of Practice and serial technologist who blends teaching, research, and hands-on development to translate AI, data science, and IT into practical tools that expand human capability. With roots in systems administration and software development dating back to 1981, he now leads curriculum and practitioner initiatives at Syracuse University while founding AppHammer to deliver pragmatic Generative AI and cloud-native solutions. He bridges enterprise operations (VMware, Windows/Linux, SQL) and modern dev stacks (Docker, Kubernetes, Flutter, Python/C#) and serves as an AWS Educate Cloud Ambassador, bringing industry-ready cloud skills into the classroom. Michael’s work is informed by a Doctorate in Information Management and decades of campus-scale infrastructure experience, which gives him an unusually deep historical perspective on how emerging technologies evolve in practice.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctorate of Professional Studies, Information Management, Doctorate of Professional Studies, Information Management at Syracuse University
BS, Mathmatics / Computer Science, BS, Mathmatics / Computer Science at State University of New York at Oswego