Summary
Thomas Hudak is a seasoned technology leader with over two decades of hands-on experience scaling infrastructure from startups to Fortune 10 enterprises. Currently Senior Director of Operations at Optum, he leads the Epic EMR cloud migration and enterprise-wide platform modernization efforts that underpin global healthcare delivery. He combines deep SRE, DevOps, and cloud architecture expertise with proven success in large-scale data, Kafka/MongoDB cluster management, and infrastructure-as-code automation. Thomas has repeatedly built platforms from scratch, driven zero-trust/resilient network designs, and overseen operations supporting hundreds of millions of users and mission-critical Tier-0 systems. Known as a practical technologist—“jack of all trades, master of several”—he pairs strategic leadership of large teams with hands-on engineering to reduce time-to-market and improve system reliability. An early practitioner of platform abstraction and massive-scale data pipelines, he uniquely bridges low-level systems engineering and executive-driven cloud transformation.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
GED, GED at WBL High School Post Secondary / Century College