My name is Hudson Riggs, I am the founder of Hudson Riggs Systems a company that creates bespoke solutions that allow communities to thrive. We manage servers, create software, and educate our customers on how to run their own services independently to enhance their ability to operate without us.
I have been working in the system admin field since 2016 and developing since 2020, I have worked on numerous projects for gaming communities, local governments, and private companies since then in JavaScript, Java, C++, Node JS, Python, Go and utilized tools such as PostgreSQL, Redis, Git, and many many other development, and ci cd tools.
At 17 I created my own cluster of deprecated servers to remove my reliance on the cloud, seeing the premature deactivation of many cloud systems. Now the information you are seeing is based on one of servers in one of many clusters. I have a deep knowledge of Virtual Machines, containerization, Kubernetes, docker, load balancer, webservers, dns, mail servers, game servers, and media servers.
I have recently started leveraging AI to increase production efficiency as well as system administration tasks.
A bespoke solution created to enhance the weather intelligence, staffing requirements and scheduling needs of any beach patrol. Initially developed as a scheduling app LightHouse has grown to encompass the needs of any size beach patrol with a public dashboard that can be displayed on any platform to enhance public safety.
Features: Scheduling & availability, Daily assignments, Auto-sort, Beaches & vehicles, Weather/surf/tides, Public dashboard, Public beach map, Notifications, Run sheet PDF, Ranks & permissions, Authentication, User profiles, Sorting & ordering, Admin analytics, Storm closures, Environment & versioning, Configuration, Admin tools, Beach map management, Health & diagnostics, API & Swagger, Version compatibility
Created unique retexturing of vehicles, clothing, and weapons for the community. Created unique models for vehicles, clothing, and other objects with unique features such as a dynamic radio "vending machine". Integrated a web forum and permissions system, Invision Community and the PERSCOM addon into a discord bot and internal server to be used by a ArmA III game server and mission file to draw data such as name, rank, unit to set custom textures, stat tracking and enabling player and campaign persistence.
CVW18 is a DCS Community focusing on Naval Aviation with a set of very complex problems that had to be overcome. Created an online learning platform with required readings, test, quizzes, and automatic grading for its members, systems linked via in game commands, for instructors to pass or fail a candidate on in game skills, persistence for missions, as well as integration with community projects such as the UH60 mod enabling anti-submarine warfare through adapting community scripts.
Developed and then Administered for a community of 500+ individuals. This community grew from ArmA III Project Life in 2015, managed legacy code and databases, ensured critical infrastructure did not go down, created many unique and bespoke vehicle models, clothing models and weapon models. Created a bespoke web forum, that integrated into the game and could be used in game, such as police MDTs, a banking site with player transfers in and out of game, item transfer and storage interfaces.
Created and manage a complex infrastructure solution that integrates promox, and well as a slew of other operating systems into one backend managed solution to rent to customers, integrating many open source apps into this framework such as next cloud, jelly fin, radarr, sonarr, jellyseerr, gitea, authentik, pelican, and many many more.
Company: Hudson Riggs Systems
Role: Founder
Email: hudson@riggs.gg
Discord: riggs0
Hudson Riggs Systems | 2016 - Present
Various Gaming Communities | 2016 - 2020
ArmA III & DCS Communities | 2015 - 2020