Violet Hynes
Engineer II at HashiCorp
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolViolet Hynes is an Engineer II with 10 years of backend and security-focused software engineering experience, currently building core secrets-management features on HashiCorp Vault from Ottawa while working remotely. She holds a first-class MSci in Computer Science from the University of Birmingham and has a strong track record in microservices, serverless architectures, and cloud-native tooling from previous roles at Kinaxis and Click Travel. At HashiCorp she contributes to Vault’s authentication and authorization stack—implementing MFA support and role resolution logic—bringing practical security engineering to a widely used open-source project. Violet combines hands-on coding in Java, C#, Node.js and infrastructure-as-code with experience in customer-facing delivery and team leadership, including ERG leadership and process improvement. She is selective about remote work and brings a pragmatic, customer-centric mindset to building reliable, secure systems.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, MSci Computer Science, First class degree, Master’s Degree, MSci Computer Science, First class degree at University of Birmingham
English
Github Skills (10)
factor-authentication10
secret-management10
authentication10
secrets-manager10
user-authentication10
go10
security10
vault9
apidoc9
api9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/vault
May 2022 - Jan 2023
A tool for secrets management, encryption as a service, and privileged access management
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:1357 reviews, 118 commits, 934 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Violet's contributions primarily revolve around enhancing the security and functionality of the Vault secrets management tool, with a focus on the authentication and authorization aspects. They implemented and fixed functionalities related to Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), including the display of MFA information and fixing erroneous messages. They also worked on the internal workings of the code, such as adding support for role resolution logic on auth mounts.
access-managementencryptionvaultgosecrets
VioletHynes/gear-planner
Oct 2024 - Apr 2025
xivgear.app
Contributions:102 pushes, 31 branches in 6 months
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