From 2008 to 2011, Rudow worked as a manager at a gardening company. From 2012 to 2014, he served as a
Peace Corps volunteer in
Zambia. He continued his work in Zambia as a member of the
United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Zambia Economic Development Team until 2015. In 2018, he worked as a consultant with the
World Bank Group. He was also a research fellow at the Center for Open Data Enterprise in
Washington, D.C. In 2019 and 2020, he was a regional organizing coordinator for
Swing Left. From August to October 2020, he was a census enumerator for the
United States Census Bureau. Rudow joined Open Data Watch in 2018 and has since worked as a program assistant and data analyst until leaving the organization in July 2021. In 2021, he worked as a COVID-19 case investigator for Community Care of North Carolina. He was appointed to the
North Carolina House of Representatives in February 2022. In 2023, Rudow announced a run for
North Carolina's 11th congressional district. He was unopposed in the primary and faced incumbent
Chuck Edwards in the 2024 General Election to whom he lost. ==Electoral history==