Zachary Hudgins

Geospatial Building Design and Assessment​

• • Built an automated legacy-database migration tool, replacing days of manual database recreation with a minutes-long migration that logs any discrepancies for manual review, which was later used by other teams for feature porting.

• • Eliminated years of state-sync workarounds when using a material-assignment library by building infrastructure to represent its state as native database objects, letting engineers use standard database operations instead of having to simulate normal database behavior.

• • With this infrastructure in place, authored a solo technical proposal evaluating three approaches to bulk-editing building and material instances (e.g. editing all windows of a type at once vs. one-by-one). Presented and demoed this to cross-team leads and PMs, with one approach selected for implementation.

• • Authored contractually required customer-facing reports explaining how calculation methodologies were implemented relative to standalone source methodologies, including integration with other in-application methodologies and necessary deviations from source behavior.

• • Implemented a shader-based scale-reference overlay using OpenSceneGraph to determine zoom level in an empty 3D scene, which was released to internal teams and demoed to customers with positive feedback.

• • As Scrum Master, kept cross-team stakeholder reviews focused by shifting from passive meeting facilitation to actively directing sessions. Also moved proposal review from async comment threads to live discussion in order to prevent work from stalling on pending feedback.

IoT Infrastructure

• • Added support for the first WiFi motion-detection sensor in the device ecosystem, extending backend database schema and API to receive and display real-time motion-state data on the customer-facing web app.

• • Proposed and wrote integration tests to validate the new sensor type was properly integrated, catching multiple instances of a related database-update regression before release.

Label Design and Automation

• • Transitioned more than 100 customers' data from a legacy desktop app to the modern SAAS web application by building automation scripts to identify and clean up migration utility errors or artifacts, and applying manual fixes where needed.