On July 22, HashiCorp founder Mitchell Hashimoto announced that he would step down as CTO and leave the company's executive team to become a full-time individual contributor.
In an email sent to employees, Mitchell stated that he would participate in specific product teams as an individual contributor or explore other new ideas within HashiCorp. He will leave the company's executive team and board of directors, focus on engineering technology, and devote more time to product and engineering challenges.
HashiCorp was founded in 2012 by Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar. Headquartered in San Francisco, USA, HashiCorp is committed to providing services to enterprises, managing technology research and development through the data center, and allowing developers to build a complete development environment through tools to improve development efficiency. He has received investment from many institutions such as GGV, IVP, Mayfield, True Ventures, etc., and currently has nearly 1,500 employees with a valuation of more than US$5 billion.
As a co-founder, Mitchell Hashimoto served as the CEO when HashiCorp was founded in 2012, but Mitchell has always believed that a company should be established where he does not need to be involved in the daily operations of the company and other leaders can intervene at the appropriate stage. In 2016, Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar decided to hire David McJannet as CEO, and Mitchell and Armon together served as joint chief technology officer (CTO). Recently, Mitchell Hashimoto stepped down as CTO to focus on solving technical problems. However, Mitchell will continue to provide strategic planning advice to McJannet and Dadgar.
From developer to CEO, and back to his old business, Mitchell Hashimoto has taken a unique path
Mitchell Hashimoto graduated from the University of Washington and is the creator of Vagrant, Packer, Consul, Terraform, Vault, Nomad, Boundary and Waypoint. Among them, Vagrant is an open source tool developed during his university, which later became the basis of many HashiCorp products.
Mitchell Hashimoto loves open source and is keen on solving problems with computer automation, calling himself "Automation-obsessed developer". He is also a heavy user of GitHub. He has 8.8k followers on the GitHub platform and established 113 repo.
He wrote on his personal homepage:
Computer science and software engineering have always been my passion, and everything I dream of can be realized through the tool of computer.
The passion for computer and software engineering may explain Mitchell's resignation as CTO to become a personal contributor.
Marten Mickos, CEO of HackerOne and former CEO of MySQL & Eucalyptus, said:
From CEO to CTO to individual contributors, Mitchell pointed the way!
In this regard, Mitchell said that career is not a fixed linear path. It is a mechanism that can be used to test the answers to certain questions, such as: Is the family cared for? Do I have a goal? Can I do what I like? For different people, the problems are different.
But anyway, Mitchell Hashimoto took an unusual path with his love of programming.
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