person

Mitchell Hashimoto

Co-founder of HashiCorp, creator of Vagrant, Terraform, and other infrastructure tools. Served as CEO (2012-2016) then CTO (2016-2021). Departed HashiCorp in December 2023, four months after the controversial BSL license switch. Now an independent developer working on the Ghostty terminal emulator.

Career History

HashiCorp

Co-founder

Jan 1, 2012 – Dec 15, 2023

Track Record

Mitchell Hashimoto co-founded HashiCorp and created Terraform, Vault, and Vagrant as open source

Jan 1, 2012

Hashimoto co-founded HashiCorp in 2012 and created widely-used infrastructure tools including Terraform, Vagrant, Vault, Consul, and Nomad, all initially released as open source under the Mozilla Public License. These tools became foundational to modern DevOps and cloud infrastructure.

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Sources: Wikipedia· HashiCorp