Summary
Michael Hudson is a seasoned DevOps engineer with a decade of enterprise-focused experience and over 30 years of hands-on hardware and networking expertise. He combines deep configuration management skill—Puppet Certified Professional and long experience with mCollective/Foreman—with practical scripting in Python, Ruby, and Unix shell to automate deployments and testing pipelines. At companies like Boeing, Wells Fargo, and Progressive he has built Puppet modules, helped architect Puppet Enterprise at scale, and introduced Agile and CI/CD practices using Git and Azure DevOps. His background in SANs, fibre channel switching, and lab infrastructure gives him a rare full-stack ops perspective that spans from low-level cabling and storage to cloud-native tooling. Based in Colorado Springs, he’s comfortable translating operational constraints into reproducible automation and has a track record improving vendor products and internal standards for large environments. A longtime tinkerer with home automation and PC hardware, he brings pragmatic troubleshooting instincts to complex systems integration challenges.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Electronics Technology/MIS, Electronics Technology/MIS at Colorado Technical University