Packt · 2017 · Author
Comprehensive Ruby Programming
From beginner to confident programmer
By Jordan Hudgens
Developer education
Teaching, built as a system.
Books and courses are one part of the work. At Bottega University, I built the onboarding, observation, clearance and ongoing-development system for instructors, alongside the tools that supported it.
3
Packt books
16
Udemy courses
111K
Udemy students
4.5
Udemy instructor rating
41.9K
YouTube subscribers
10M
YouTube views
Platform metrics reviewed in October 2026; not live counters. The Udemy rating is an instructor rating.
Published work
Three Packt books. Working code behind the teaching.
Packt · 2021 · Co-authored
The TypeScript Workshop
A practical guide to confident, effective TypeScript programming
By Ben Grynhaus, Jordan Hudgens, Rayon Hunte, Matt Morgan, Wekoslav Stefanovski
Bottega University
The system behind the instructors.
Eight years in the role. Up to 25 developers, instructors and support staff.
I built the full onboarding course set covering teaching methodology and coursework, grounded in pedagogy and rubrics, and required onboarding before someone taught. I owned teaching observations, dry runs and a formal cleared-to-teach rubric.
I managed all instructors, including contract instructors, and owned hiring, performance reviews and contract-renewal decisions. I built the ongoing portal for instructors and support staff, added custom training and visibility applications, and ran weekly training and review meetings.
Prepare
Jordan built the full onboarding course set covering teaching methodology and coursework, grounded in pedagogy and rubrics. Onboarding was required before someone taught, and covered instructors and support staff.
Observe and clear
At Bottega University, Jordan owned teaching observations, dry runs and a formal cleared-to-teach rubric, alongside weekly training and review meetings. The approved record establishes these formal quality processes, not an externally issued instructor credential or a monthly pass-rate metric.
Develop
Jordan built the ongoing portal for instructors and support staff, added custom training and visibility applications, and ran weekly training and review meetings. The tools supported ongoing education and communication.
Manage
At Bottega University, Jordan managed all instructors, including contract instructors, and owned instructor hiring, performance reviews and contract-renewal decisions. The mixed team of up to 25 developers, instructors and support staff is not an instructor-only count.
Distinct measures, clear scope
Teaching scale and tracked outcomes
Curricula used by 250,000+ learners across platforms and schools.
Live instruction
Across DevCamp/Bottega and Udemy, I taught several thousand engineers live, with cohorts ranging from roughly a dozen to hundreds.
Graduate career tracking
Separately, DevCamp/Bottega graduate career-tracking data recorded starting salaries of $50K–$60K.
Historical tracked outcomes; not a promise for every graduate or a current market salary.
Learn by building.
View all courses on Udemy
Udemy
HTML/CSS Bootcamp
Build responsive websites with HTML and CSS.
Udemy
Comprehensive Ruby Programming
Ruby programming, including object-oriented programming and testing.
Udemy
Freelance Bootcamp
Proposals, clients and project management for independent work.
Teaching workshop · 2021
Watch the teaching.
A live React workshop shows the process at the keyboard. This is an archival teaching sample from 2021.
Create a Custom React Hook to Add Responsive Features to an Application.
An archival live workshop with starter and completed code, showing how Jordan works through a React implementation.
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Teaching at scale. Building in production.
Curricula used by 250,000+ learners across platforms and schools.
300+ live enterprise deployments across seven verticals.