Hutson Betts

Principal Software Engineer September, 2026 – Present

• Technical lead for a team at FactSet responsible for architecting and building infrastructure that supports most engineers at FactSet in the areas of source control, artifact storage and distribution, continuous integration and delivery, code intelligence, and code quality analysis.
• Recruited and trained a geographically-distributed agile engineering team to maintain the services and platforms our team provides to FactSet's engineering organization.
• Lead for the platform that forms the foundation for FactSet's new internal developer platform.
• Lead for FactSet's internal code quality analysis platform since 2023.
• Lead for FactSet's internal code intelligence strategy and infrastructure since 2022.
• Maintained compliance with FactSet's RTO/RPO requirements for our team's tier-0 platforms.

Principal Software Engineer September, 2019 – August, 2026

• Technical lead for a team at FactSet responsible for architecting and building infrastructure that supports most engineers at FactSet in the areas of source control, artifact storage and distribution, continuous integration and delivery, code intelligence, generative AI coding assistants, and code quality analysis.
• Recruited and trained a geographically-distributed agile engineering team to maintain the services and platforms our team provides to FactSet's engineering organization.
• Lead for FactSet's internal generative AI coding assistant strategy and deployment since 2024.
• Lead for FactSet's internal code quality analysis platform since 2023.
• Lead for FactSet's internal code intelligence strategy and infrastructure since 2022.
• Led team through implementation of a disaster recovery (DR) strategy to meet aggressive RTO/RPO requirements for our team's tier-0 platforms.

Lead Software Engineer January, 2019 – August, 2019

• Contributed to a Platform as a Service internal product.
• Developed shared library, and its release process, for sharing components across PaaS portals, ensuring consistent product behavior across portals.
• Participated in the initial development of an internal feature-flag platform that grew to serve the majority of FactSet's products.

Lead Software Engineer February, 2018 – December, 2018

• Led Open Source initiative for System Infrastructure department, doubling the number of Open Source projects.
• Managed infrastructure for automated dependency management; including upgrading and deprecation of packages.
• Developed release tool prototype capable of on-boarding many languages with automated package release workflows, all while minimizing operational overhead.

Senior Software Engineer October, 2015 – January, 2018

• Delivered on our company's need for pre-configured tooling to build client facing web applications, libraries, and NodeJS services.
• Leveraged best of breed tools, such as GulpJS, Babel, Mocha, Karma, Express, Webpack, Rollup, etc.
• Reduced response time to changing business requirements for engineers, enabling them to go from new product, to shipped code, by offering project scaffolding tools based on the Yeoman framework.
• Accelerated tool adoption through extension documentation, training, and regular community engagement.
• On-boarded over 200 engineers within 2 years; a nearly 60% adoption by the web community within the company.
• Saw an average of 113 engineers per week leveraging our build tools.
• Lowered the barrier for cross-team collaboration through process and code standardization efforts.
• Established a process for quick deployment of tool configuration for consistent use of best practices across software projects; such as TSLint, Babel, and TypeScript.
• Authored our company's NodeJS usage policy for production processes, and fulfill role as point person for engaging the NodeJS community, including the Node LTS Working Group.
• Organized a bi-weekly developer tool roundtable consisting of developers from across the company.

Software Engineer October, 2015 – September, 2016

• Participated in on-call rotation for git-based GitLab source control instance, artifact repository, and continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) platform; providing effective, and timely, support for outages and consumer needs.
• Appointed to the Architecture Review Board; a group tasked with defining company-wide engineering best practices and approving standard technology solutions.

Software Engineer October, 2014 – September, 2015

• Developed scaffolding tool, using Yeoman framework, to bootstrap new Analytics and Fixed Income NodeJS services.
• Collaborated with engineers across multiple departments to maintain the build and deployment infrastructure for the company's web products; which included working with Jenkins and Perforce.
• Assisted Analytics and Fixed Income software engineers troubleshoot build and deployment issues affecting their web products.
• Researched emerging web technologies, such as the evolving ECMA-262 standard, and explored approaches to improve the developer experience.

Software Engineer June, 2012 – October, 2014

• Led retirement of key legacy application through community and product stakeholder engagement.
• Collaborated on building, from the ground up, one of the first web-based products for the Analytics department using BackboneJS, before migrating to AngularJS in response to our changing requirements and needs.
• Participated in a critical on-call rotation managing client portfolio data.

Graduate Assistant

• Provided infrastructure support for the Texas A&M University's Virtual Network Engineering Lab (VNEL).
• Deployed 25 servers to 3 racks networked using 2 48-port CISCO 2960 switches.
• Enabled VNEL's ability to rapidly scale by deploying an OpenNebula private cloud with GlusterFS as the storage backend.
• Built a virtual network orchestrator with Python, exposing functionality through a REST API.
• Sustained strong uptime at VNEL through network monitoring and alerting using an in-house deployment of OpenNMS.
• Secured VNEL through VLAN segmentation and regular security patching, creating an isolated environment where hundreds of students from other colleges conducted security training.

Part-Time Software Engineer

• Contributed to the development and maintenance of flight and ground support software for Texas A&M University's AggieSat2 satellite (Which flew on STS-127).
• Streamlined multidisciplinary team collaboration by deploying collaboration tools, such as Trac and git, onto 4 Linux servers.
• Gained experience in various engineering fields through cross functional collaboration, system operations, and embedded hardware and software teamwork.
• Gained experience in management and organizational system processes.
• Led year long development effort on mission critical ground support software project with a team of 5 undergraduate students following Agile principles facilitated through the Scrum development framework.

Part-Time Office Assistant

• Supported various office functions including receptionist, intra campus mail delivery, organization of student documentation, and student documentation filing.