May Walter

Co-Founder and CTO of Hud

About the author

May Walter is a software engineer, researcher, and entrepreneur with a proven track record leading technology innovation as CTO across multiple startups.

An authority in operating system optimization and cloud runtime internals, now co-founder and CTO of Hud, where she is pioneering a Runtime Code Sensor – a new foundation for AI coding agents to operate with real production context.

Latest Articles

The Missing Context: Why AI Coding Agents Need Production Intelligence

TL;DR: Coding agents are incredible - majestic and powerful - but in complex enterprise-scale production they can still wreak havoc.

Roee Adler

May Walter

Dec 24, 2025

AI in the Trenches: What We’re Really Learning About Coding with Machines

May Walter reflects on the real lessons from InfoQ’s “AI in the Trenches” panel - where the future of software development is already unfolding.

May Walter

Nov 10, 2025

How Augment and Hud Helped Me Find Performance Opportunities in Production in 5 Minutes

Performance optimization in production can feel like searching for a needle in a haystack.

May Walter

Sep 03, 2025

Production-Driven Code Navigation

Every engineer knows how code is written, but almost none truly see how it flows in production - Hud’s Snaky Chart changes that.a

May Walter

Sep 01, 2025

Plugging Live Production Context into AI Code Generation Workflows

LLMs can write code at scale, but until now they’ve been coding in the dark - cut off from the one thing that matters most:…

May Walter

Jun 18, 2025

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