About Jordan Hudgens

Jordan Hudgens is a technical educator and ai engineering leader based in Phoenix, Arizona. He is Co-founder & CTO at Encapsa AI, Inc., where he leads an eight-person team building production AI systems used in 300+ enterprise deployments.

He served as Chief Technology Officer & Lead Technical Instructor at Bottega University from October 2016 to July 2024, leading curriculum and product and working as lead instructor. He owned required onboarding, teaching observations, dry runs, a cleared-to-teach rubric and instructor hiring, performance reviews and contract renewals, supported by a training portal and custom applications.

Jordan is the author of three Packt books, one co-authored, and the self-published The Freelancer Manifesto. His curricula have been used by 250,000+ learners; his Udemy teaching includes 16 courses and 111K students.

He founded DevCamp, which Bottega University acquired in a $5M stock purchase in 2018. He holds an M.S. in Software Engineering from Texas Tech University and a B.S. in Computer Science from University of Arkansas Grantham.

Currently exploring full-time roles in developer education, forward deployed engineering and AI leadership; relocating anywhere.