Summary
Michael Hedgpeth is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with 11+ years driving cloud migrations, platform engineering, and organizational change across large-scale SaaS and enterprise systems. He has led teams of 45+ across the US and Europe, rebuilt cloud stacks at NCR and Splunk, and delivered migrations and reliability improvements that cut downtime and deployment failures dramatically. Now co-founding Hedge-Ops Software to build tooling that helps engineering leaders do people work better, he blends deep hands-on systems craftsmanship (currently coding in Rust, Tauri, and Svelte) with a rare focus on people and management design. Michael’s background includes running one of the largest internal Splunk instances, starting international engineering teams, and orchestrating emergency migrations under intense timelines—experience that informs his product vision to transform how performance and people processes are managed.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts Management Information Systems General, Associate of Arts Management Information Systems General at Tarrant County College
BS Information Systems, BS Information Systems at The University of Texas at Arlington
Spanish, French