I’m Jordan Hudgens, a technical educator and AI engineering leader. I built the instructor-development system at Bottega University, from required onboarding and teaching observations to clearance standards and ongoing training. Today I lead an eight-person team building production AI at Encapsa and teach customer teams during every deployment.
Currently exploring full-time roles in developer education, forward deployed engineering and AI leadership; relocating anywhere.
me@jordanhudgens.com
Co-founder & CTO
Encapsa AI, Inc.
01Developer education
At Bottega University, I led curriculum and product and served as lead instructor. I built required onboarding, owned observations, dry runs and a cleared-to-teach rubric, and managed instructor hiring, performance reviews and contract renewals.
Eight years as CTO and lead instructor, leading up to 25 developers, instructors and support staff.
02Enterprise engineering
At Encapsa, I lead an eight-person team building agents, retrieval systems, self-hosted inference and enterprise integrations. One of the team’s commercial-underwriting deliveries reduced submission-to-decision from three days to 15 minutes and recaptured 300+ staff hours per month.
Results delivered by the team I lead. Customer names stay private.
Selected projects
Project 01Historical roleDeveloper education
Required onboarding, observed teaching, formal clearance and ongoing instructor development at Bottega University, led by Jordan Hudgens.
Four stages Prepare, observe, clear and develop
Project 05Body of workDeveloper education
Jordan Hudgens’ books, courses, workshops and live teaching: three Packt books and curricula used by 250K+ learners across platforms.
250K+ learners using the curricula
Project 03Historical roleDeveloper education
DevCamp: education software, web and mobile applications, a PaaS LMS and the 2018 $5M stock acquisition by Bottega University.
$5M stock purchase by Bottega University, 2018
Project 07Ongoing programDeveloper education
Customer instruction during every Encapsa deployment, ongoing training and internal developer enablement alongside Jordan Hudgens’ production AI work.
Every deployment includes customer instruction
Project 02Ongoing programProduction AI and engineering
Jordan Hudgens leads Encapsa’s production AI platform: 300+ deployments, agents, retrieval, self-hosted inference and customer training.
300+ live enterprise deployments
Project 04Selected team deliveryProduction AI and engineering
An Encapsa team delivery cut underwriting submission-to-decision time from three days to 15 minutes and recaptured 300+ staff hours monthly.
3 days to 15 min submission to decision
On the bookshelf
Packt · 2017 · Author
Packt · 2021 · Co-authored
Packt · 2017 · Author
Ask Jordan
Start with the questions hiring teams ask most. Open one for a short answer, or ask Jordan Bot for a longer answer that links to the sections it draws on.
Prefer a conversation? Email me@jordanhudgens.com.
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. Before Encapsa, he served as Chief Technology Officer & Lead Technical Instructor at Bottega University from October 2016 to July 2024.
At Bottega University, instructors and support staff completed required onboarding grounded in pedagogy and rubrics before teaching. Jordan owned teaching observations, dry runs and a formal cleared-to-teach rubric, then supported ongoing development through a training portal, custom training and visibility applications, and weekly training and review meetings. He also owned instructor hiring, reviews and contract renewals.
Jordan leads an eight-person team building closed-circuit LLM systems, agents and tool use, MCP integrations, RAG and PageIndex retrieval and self-hosted vLLM inference across 300+ live deployments. In one team delivery, commercial underwriting went from three days to 15 minutes with 300+ staff hours recaptured monthly; energy, education and hospitality deliveries reported separate savings.
Jordan teaches customer engineering and operations teams during every Encapsa deployment, then continues with ongoing training outside deployments and builds internal training and usage tooling. The teaching runs alongside his hands-on production AI engineering, so instruction stays tied to the systems the team ships. He works daily with Claude Code CLI, Codex CLI, custom Goose harness, and Mistral.
Jordan led 50 IT, software-development and automation staff across 30+ US locations at Dixie Electric, up to 25 developers, instructors and support staff at Bottega University, and eight full-time staff at Encapsa today. Separately, his curricula have reached 250,000+ learners and he has taught several thousand engineers live; those audiences overlap.
Curricula used by 250,000+ learners across platforms and schools.
300+ live enterprise deployments across seven verticals.