Nick Hudson
Staff Engineer at OTTO SPORT AI
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Hudson is a staff engineer with 15+ years building cloud-native platforms, CI/CD tooling, and internal developer workflows that boost reliability and delivery velocity. He’s designed and operated multi-cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes-based systems for companies ranging from fast-growth startups to enterprise healthcare and public safety, with deep hands-on experience in Terraform, Helm, GitOps, and PostgreSQL automation. Comfortable coding in Go and Rust, he’s built operators and automation for CloudNative PostgreSQL, observability pipelines, and robust backup/restore procedures that keep customer-facing services resilient. Nick has repeatedly served as both an individual contributor and informal technical lead, shaping incident response and onboarding practices so teams can participate effectively in on-call rotations. Based in Birmingham, Alabama, he brings a pragmatic combination of platform architecture and production ops experience that consistently turns complex infrastructure needs into repeatable engineering practices.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Networking, Computer Science Networking at Jefferson State Community College
Github Skills (120)
dashboard10
postgresql10
failover10
grafana10
terraform10
message-queue10
opentelemetry10
elasticsearch10
backend10
influxdb10
steroids10
monitoring10
charts10
helm10
promscale10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
tembo-io/tembo-images
Jul 2023 - Apr 2025
Docker images for Postgres
Contributions:40 reviews, 15 PRs, 47 pushes in 1 year 8 months
nhudson/vimrc
Feb 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:19 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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