Summary
Pearse Hutson is a pragmatic senior software engineer with over a decade of experience designing and shipping scalable web and cloud systems, currently building at Regal after impactful senior roles at EquipmentShare and Olo. He brings deep expertise in Node.js, .NET, AWS, Kafka, GraphQL and CI/CD automation, having improved high-throughput IoT pipelines, migrated systems toward event-driven architectures, and optimized SaaS-facing UIs. Pearse blends front-end polish with back-end resilience—experimenting with UX variations, OpenSearch-backed querying, and Confluent-managed Kafka streams to balance performance and user experience. A former technical trainer, he pairs hands-on coding with mentorship and curriculum design, and he often surfaces process improvements like CDKTF support to streamline team delivery. Based in Greater Columbia, Missouri, he combines practical DevOps instincts with a background in music education, bringing an unusual mix of disciplined collaboration and creative problem-solving to engineering challenges.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Music Education, Instrumental Education, Bachelor of Music Education, Instrumental Education at Central Methodist University-College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
University of Missouri
English