Waylon Hudson
Lead Developer at Facet Starlight
Melbourne, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWaylon Hudson is a versatile full-stack software engineer and lead developer with a decade of experience building manufacturing support systems and commercial-ready games. He splits his time between Collins Aerospace—where he develops C# ASP.NET back-ends and Vue.js front-ends for enterprise manufacturing workflows—and Facet Starlight, a small game studio he leads in Unreal Engine 5 using both Blueprints and C++. His background includes delivering cross-site production tools, RFID tracking systems, and a LEAN savings webapp adopted across multiple facilities, demonstrating an ability to take projects from prototype to widely used deployments. An active contributor to QA and test automation—having improved test minimization for the well-known Randoop project—he brings a strong focus on robustness and maintainability. Comfortable leading small teams or owning features end-to-end, he leverages formal software engineering training (MS and BS) to bridge game development, web infrastructure, and manufacturing-scale software.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Software Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Software Engineering at Florida Institute of Technology
Github Skills (9)
javas10
testing-library10
junit10
mstest10
ui-testing10
teste10
java10
test-automation10
testing10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
randoop/randoop
May 2017 - Jul 2018
Automatic test generation for Java
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:10 commits, 34 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Waylon primarily focused on enhancing the test suite for the Randoop project, a Java-based automatic test generation tool. Contributions include implementing an error test minimizer to simplify failing tests while preserving behavior, introducing the minimizer as a command-line option, and updating its integration with Randoop test output. The user also addressed import issues and improved the overall maintainability and functionality of the testing components, indicating a strong focus on test automation and quality assurance.
javatest-automationtest-automation-javatestingtesting-tools
huangwaylon/NHK-Easy-News
Sep 2017 - Nov 2018
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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