Andy P.

About Andy P.

I lead a team of ~100 engineers at Hudl. Always hiring, reach out if you\'re interested.Platform Engineering: A team of ~30 engineers building scalable, reliable platforms that power all of Hudl’s products. I drove our Infrastructure as Code strategy, leading the adoption of Terraform Cloud to streamline infrastructure management. This initiative made it easy for product squads to quickly provision databases, search services, queues, and caches, accelerating their ability to deliver value. From simplifying microservices management and enabling iOS/Android feature parity with React Native to delivering accessible web interfaces with the Uniform design system, Platform Engineering empowers product development across the company.Competitive Business Unit Engineering: A team of ~70 engineers focused on delivering products for the club and high school markets in North America. This team drives the core Hudl experience—connecting video and data to help coaches and athletes succeed.Across both teams, I deliver transformative outcomes by aligning strategy, fostering engineering excellence, and driving measurable results:FinOps Transformation: Integrated tools like CloudZero to shift our approach to cloud cost optimization, reducing hosting COGS from 7.3% of revenue to 6.1%.Driving Engineering Excellence: Cultivated a culture of system ownership and strong DevOps practices. Introduced OpsLevel to enhance service maturity and reliability, ensuring teams build and maintain high-quality systems.Zero-to-One Product Launches: Led the launch of Hudl Fan, delivering features like digital ticketing and paving the way for Hudl’s engagement in fan experiences.Acquisition Integration: Led the onboarding of BlueFrame after acquisition, setting a multi-year vision for system integration and scaling video ingestion by 10x.Scalable Video: Architected Hudl’s 100+ PB video pipeline, scaling to servers on peak nights. Cut video processing costs by +50% with spot instances and on-demand rendering, delivering high efficiency at massive scale.

Experience

1. Vice President, Competitive and Platform Engineering

   Hudl

   Jan 2026 — Present · Lincoln, NE, US

   I lead the Competitive and Platform Engineering teams at Hudl. Competitive Engineering is focused on building end user products for our North America markets, and the Platform team builds the base of our micro-service and application infrastructure that powers all software engineering at Hudl.

Education

• Northwest Missouri State University

  Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

  2005 — 2009

Skills

• Lucene
• Java
• Search Engines
• Memcached
• Objective-C
• Distributed Systems
• Oracle Sql
• Ios Development
• C#
• Elasticsearch
• Android Development