Paul Hudson is the founder of Skippr, a data-focused brand dedicated to building practical infrastructure and tools for modern data systems. Hudson’s work spans database and ELT tooling, agent systems, and the design of data and cloud platforms. The site presents both professional services and open-source projects, with resources covering data infrastructure for UK businesses and tools for connecting, transforming, and testing data.

Skippr’s project portfolio includes skipprd ELT, with guidance for working with Python, Snowflake, and Postgres, as well as dbt and Soda workflows. Other projects include Skippr IDE, ReAct Agentic Workflow, sde, SkipprDB, and extenddb-fdb. Hudson’s engineering approach emphasizes recoverable systems, determinism, immutability, and idempotency. He favors simple, reactive architectures in which changes flow downstream, along with practices such as event sourcing, schema inference and evolution, and all-or-nothing commits. The goal is to create systems that are predictable, resilient, and straightforward to operate, while reducing unnecessary complexity and manual tuning.