Mitchell Hashimoto
Founder of HashiCorp, Creator of Vagrant, Packer, Consul, Terraform, Vault, Nomad, Waypoint, and more.
Manhattan Beach, California
Overview
Work Experience
Founder
2012 - 2023
Founded HashiCorp and changed roles from CTO to an individual contributor in 2021. HashiCorp makes a set of tools that are downloaded millions of times every month: Vagrant, Packer, Consul, Terraform, Vault, Nomad, Waypoint, and Boundary. These tools are used almost universally by tech companies worldwide and span multiple professional categories from developers to operators/IT as well as InfoSec.
Founder and CTO
2016 - 2021
Founded HashiCorp and changed roles from CEO to CTO in 2016 until July 2021. During this time, HashiCorp grew to nearly 1,500 employees, product downloads grew to over 100 million downloads per year, and we launched numerous new products. By the end of my tenure as CTO, we had over 1,700 enterprise customers including nearly 30% of the Fortune 500.
Founder and CEO
2012 - 2016
Founded HashiCorp with Armon Dadgar and operated as CEO for almost four years, participating in every role along the way. During this time, HashiCorp grew from one employee to over 40, one open source tool to eight, zero dollars in revenue to seven figures in annually recurring revenue.
Operations Engineer
2010 - 2012
Designed and built the automation and tooling around infrastructure management from the ground up. In charge of monitoring, scalability, and reliability of the overall website. The tools built were built around Puppet, Python, Ruby, and Bash. Scaled from 1QPS at 200msec median response to 2000QPS at 20msec median response, processing over 100MM+ API requests per day.
Kiip is a rewards network and mobile application that offers rewards from brands and companies for virtual achievements.
Raised $32,009,962.00 from North Atlantic Capital, U.S. Cellular, Verizon Ventures and Relay Ventures.
Developer
2008 - 2011
Web developer which worked with many startups at various stages. I helped plan the architecture to scale sites from inception to having millions of active users. Specialized in Ruby-based web development, flash development, and frontend Javascript work.
Education
B.S.
2007 - 2011