Kevin Fishner
Owner at HashiCorp
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Fishner is an entrepreneurial technology leader and operator with 11 years of experience building teams, products, and go-to-market motion for developer-focused businesses. He was an early business hire and later VP of Product at HashiCorp, where he shaped product strategy, packaging, and company-wide operating systems as Chief of Staff through the company’s IPO preparation. Kevin combines product, marketing, and documentation chops with hands-on contributions to major open-source ecosystems like HashiCorp’s Consul and Terraform, where he improved website content, analytics, and enterprise docs. Based in Austin, he now runs Radius Butcher & Grocery while advising and angel investing across B2B developer tools, consumer startups, and frontier tech. That blend of product leadership, open-source technical writing, and community-focused entrepreneurship gives him a rare mix of strategic vision and pragmatic execution. He studied philosophy at Duke, which informs his emphasis on clear communication and systems thinking.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
A.B, Philosophy, A.B, Philosophy at Duke University
Russian
Github Skills (19)
service-mesh10
content-management-system10
cloud-manager10
terraform10
web-content10
ruby10
terraformer10
consul10
content-management10
html10
infrastructure-as-code10
editing10
content-model10
documentation10
edit10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/terraform-website
Sep 2017 - Dec 2018
Build configuration and partial content for terraform.io
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:35 commits, 9 PRs, 29 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to the documentation of Terraform's website, focusing on the Terraform Enterprise section. Their commits involved modifying layouts and content, particularly for enterprise features such as "Reliability & Availability," "External Vault", and installation guides, along with overall website updates. They made several changes in `enterprise2.erb` files, suggesting a focus on updating and refining the documentation layout and content. Further contributions involved minor changes like fixing a specific AMP issue within enterprise documentation.
build-configurationterraform
hashicorp/consul
Mar 2015 - Jun 2018
Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 8 PRs, 5 pushes in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to the project's website, focusing on content updates and UI adjustments. They added a new section for the HashiCorp ecosystem, updated analytics integration, and made copyedits to improve the content. The user also fixed UTM parameters in the website's banners.
consuldata-centerservice-meshservice-discoverykubernetes
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