HashiCorp Co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto created many of HashiCorp’s tools, including Terraform, Vault, Consul, Nomad, Vagrant, Packer, and Waypoint. Passionate about developer tooling and automation, Mitchell is still a very active developer, working with specific product teams, exploring new ideas within HashiCorp, and participating in big-picture planning. He is the author of an O’Reilly book on Vagrant, has spoken at hundreds of industry conferences, and is a top GitHub user by followers, activity, and contributions. Mitchell earned a BS in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of Washington, where he met HashiCorp Co-founder Armon Dadgar.