Heather Hudson

Overview

Senior Engineering Manager at Nike, focused on platform engineering. Cut p99 latency on the developer platform services from 752ms to 175ms. Led the migration of 19 services to Go. Most at home with Backstage and Go. I mentor first-time managers when I can.

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Experience

1. Senior Engineering Manager

   Dec 2022 - Present
   Nike · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
   • Mentored 12 engineers through their first promotion.
   • Reduced cloud spend on developer platform by 29% in two quarters.
   • Wrote the Backstage service that now handles 20 million requests a day.
2. Senior Platform Engineer

   Sep 2019 - Oct 2022
   Reddit · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
   • Built the experimentation framework 7 product teams use to ship changes safely.
3. Platform Engineer

   Feb 2018 - Sep 2019
   Microsoft · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
   • Reduced cloud spend on developer platform by 44% in two quarters.
   • Wrote the CI/CD service that now handles 34 million requests a day.
4. Senior Platform Engineer

   Jan 2015 - Feb 2018
   Nvidia · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
   • Mentored 12 engineers through their first promotion.
   • Grew the developer platform team from 3 to 26 engineers.
5. Platform Engineer

   Nov 2012 - Jan 2015
   Johnson & Johnson · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
   • Wrote the service mesh service that now handles 82 million requests a day.
   • Moved 66% of developer platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

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Education

1. Stanford GSB

   MBA, Business Administration
   2012 - 2014
2. Penn State

   BS, Electrical Engineering
   2008 - 2012