Summary
Michelle Hodges is a former engineer turned homestead entrepreneur who combines eight years of DevOps and backend experience with hands-on permaculture and craft. She founded Studio Tanah, a ceramics and lifestyle brand in Kauaʻi, and manages The Hodges Homestead—a 1.5-acre regenerative food forest with 100+ fruit trees, on-site pottery studio, and small-scale herbal and edible goods production. Previously a DevOps engineer at LaunchDarkly and senior consultant at Slalom Build, she brings infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and cloud-native expertise to projects that demand resilience and automation. Michelle teaches pottery, curates artisan goods, and leverages her technical background to apply systems thinking to land stewardship and community food sovereignty. Unusually, she marries software-scale operational rigor with slow-living regenerative design, building sustainable systems both in cloud environments and in soil.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Coding Bootcamp Grad Full Stack Development, Coding Bootcamp Grad Full Stack Development at The Iron Yard
Bachelor of Science - BS Pre-Medicine/Pre-Medical Studies, Bachelor of Science - BS Pre-Medicine/Pre-Medical Studies at University of Richmond
English, Indonesian, Arabic, Spanish