Thomas Hudak is a skilled DevOps Evangelist with over 20 years of experience in companies of all sizes. He has worked with various computer systems, networks, storage devices, and coding languages. He currently specializes in Kubernetes, Kafka streaming, and Site Reliability Engineering to support high-performance data processing engines in production. Hudak has been a Senior Director of Engineering at UnitedHealth Group, a DevOps Director at Optum, a Senior Platform Engineer at Best Buy, and a Senior System Engineer at SPS Commerce. He has also held positions at Accenture, Code 42 Software, Inc., Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc., Yugma Inc., Wilson Learning, Escape Key Computing, TCOS, Sistina Software, and Baldeagle.com Internet Services. In his free time, he enjoys the outdoors, home renovation, traveling with his wife, and spending time with his dogs.