Hi, I’m Toby Hodges. Nice to meet you.
I build software because I believe in people's ability to use it as a tool to help design and make better lives for people, equitably. My aspirations are to create software that can improve the efficiency and effectiveness of urban design, and can provide easy-to-use tools to increase the sustainability and equity of the places it helps to create.
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I work at Autodesk as a Principal Software Engineer. There, I build the platform that enables thousands of developers to deploy, manage, and observe their applications. One of my stand-out projects is creating a vendor-agnostic Resilience API Group by extending Kubernetes on our internal control plane. The API Group, which includes SLO, SLI, Datasource, and Alert Policy, Condition, and Notification Target APIs, follows open conventions but adds a provider abstraction for our customers to be able to utilize any observability vendor offered by the platform without modifying their GitOps configurations. I am also a maintainer for our innersource internal control plane. I was promoted from Senior to Principal in early 2025.
Previous to my current work, from 2019–2022 I worked as an Infrastructure Engineer at Kaiser Permanente. There, I managed the cloud infrastructure for the KP Membership Connect platform.
I went to school at Oregon State University, where I earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science in 2020. My favorite course was Programming Languages, but the best part of college was meeting people that became a new community for me. It was a powerful lesson in the importance of community building and collaboration.
I was recently accepted to the Portland State University Urban Design Graduate Certificate Program. I plan on attending the program in the Winter of 2025–2026. I am particularly excited about this opportunity, because it will connect my software engineering expertise with my desire to help create wonderful spaces.
I carry multiple certifications, including Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD), Certified ArgoCD Project Associate (CAPA), and Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA). I earned these in late 2024–early 2025, and I plan to keep them up-to-date.