Val Conklin
Senior Engineer at HashiCorp
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolVal Conklin is a product-minded senior engineer and leader in Seattle with a decade of experience building cloud-native security and infrastructure software. Currently at HashiCorp, Val has driven delivery of Vault-related features from a CSI driver that prevents persisting secrets to cluster storage to serverless backing services for HCP Vault Secrets. They combine hands-on backend work—contributing native auth support for AWS, Azure (including Managed Identities), and GCP service accounts to the HashiCorp Vault Go client—with engineering management and mentoring to raise team impact. Val’s background spans large-scale game server orchestration, scientific data platforms, and developer experience tooling, giving them a pragmatic lens on reliability and developer workflows. Fluent in Japanese and with a history of teaching and curriculum design, they bring rare communication skills to complex, often esoteric domains. Colleagues rely on Val for clear estimation, robust testing, and turning security plumbing into pleasant user experiences.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Japanese Linguistics (Honors), 3.73, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Japanese Linguistics (Honors), 3.73 at University of Washington
English, Japanese
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Github Skills (6)
go10
api10
apidoc10
vault9
secret-management9
secrets-manager9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/vault
Oct 2021 - Jul 2022
A tool for secrets management, encryption as a service, and privileged access management
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:233 reviews, 48 commits, 117 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Val primarily contributed to the Go client library for the HashiCorp Vault project. Their work involved implementing native login methods for various authentication backends, including AWS, Azure, and GCP. Key changes included adding support for Azure Managed Identities and GCP service accounts. They also made changes to improve the API, fix issues and add tests.
access-managementencryptionvaultgosecrets
digivava/mesos-agent-attribute-appender
Jul 2017 - Mar 2019
Contributions:4 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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