Stephen Wayne
Senior Software Engineer II at HashiCorp
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Wayne is a Senior Software Engineer II with nine years of experience designing and shipping high-throughput cloud backends, primarily in Go, and currently leading hybrid SaaS and insights initiatives at HashiCorp. He led the Vault Radar hybrid agent from concept to customer delivery and built Vault Insights using Aurora, DynamoDB, Kafka and probabilistic data structures to aggregate audit data efficiently. His contributions to the open-source Vault project include fixes and features for core secrets management—activity logs, lease expiration handling, and identity APIs—underscoring deep product-level security and reliability expertise. Earlier roles span embedded Linux, IoT device integrations, and RF research, giving him a rare blend of systems, hardware-adjacent, and cloud-native experience. Stephen is a UCSD M.S. graduate in EE/CS who prefers steady engineering roles over contracting and communicates effectively across sync and async channels. An underrated strength is his knack for operationalizing prototypes into production services while mentoring and hiring strong engineering teams.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoB.S.E.E. Electrical and Computer Engineering, B.S.E.E. Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Idaho
English
Github Skills (12)
secret-management10
secrets-manager10
go10
api10
apidoc10
vault10
concurrency9
testing9
rest-api8
api-rest8
restful-api8
api-design8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/vault
Sep 2020 - Aug 2022
A tool for secrets management, encryption as a service, and privileged access management
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:420 reviews, 117 commits, 182 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily contributed to the `hashicorp/vault` repository by implementing and improving features related to the core functionality of the Vault software. Their work involved addressing issues with the identity store entity API, implementing activity log features, and resolving racy conditions within the activity log tests. Additionally, the user fixed a bug in the expiration manager related to lease counts and introduced an API for counting irrevocable leases. These contributions focused on improving the core secrets management features.
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swayne275/resume
Dec 2018 - Mar 2025
Contributions:24 PRs, 23 pushes, 29 branches in 6 years 3 months
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