Zack Hudgins

I’m a junior software engineer who enjoys turning complex workflows into dependable systems—especially when that means eliminating manual effort and making other engineers faster.

At Applied Research Associates, I built an automated legacy-database migration tool that reduced days of manual recreation to minutes, including discrepancy logging for review. I also authored and implemented infrastructure to represent a material-assignment library’s state as native database objects, removing years of state-sync workarounds and enabling standard database operations.

I partner with stakeholders and drive decisions through clear technical communication. I authored a solo technical proposal comparing bulk-editing approaches, presented it to cross-team leads and PMs, and helped move one option into implementation; I also wrote customer-facing reports explaining how calculation methodologies map to standalone source behavior.

From internships and projects, I’ve built across the stack and tested my work like a product: adding IoT sensor support at Alarm.com with backend API/schema updates and integration tests, contributing to migration automation at Loftware for 100+ customer transitions, and evaluating LLM outputs in an AI model evaluation contract. I also designed and built a Spanish learning web app using spaced repetition, with AI-generated examples to address common flashcard failure modes.