Annie Hedgpeth is a cloud and infrastructure engineer turned founder with a decade of experience building and automating Azure deployments, CI/CD pipelines, and Terraform examples used broadly by the community. As Co-Founder of People Work Software and former Senior Engineer at HashiCorp, she pairs deep hands-on skills in Go, Terraform, Docker, and GitHub Actions with product-minded leadership focused on the people side of engineering management. Her open-source contributions include numerous Azure examples in the widely used hashicorp/terraform and terraform-provider-azurerm repos, reflecting a commitment to reproducible, documented infrastructure. She has a track record of mentoring early-career engineers and driving workflow improvements at scale, from refactoring Chef implementations to centralizing Terraform Enterprise services. Annie’s background in film and casting gives her a distinctive edge in assembling teams, communicating vision, and running inclusive technical communities. Based in Boulder, Colorado, she blends engineering rigor with a passion for culture and growth-minded community building.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Film/Cinema/Video Studies, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Film/Cinema/Video Studies at The University of Texas at Arlington
Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure. It is a source-available tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned.
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Contributions:24 commits, 21 PRs, 14 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Annie primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of Azure infrastructure examples within the Terraform repository. Their work involved creating and modifying deployment scripts (CI/CD and local deployment) for various Azure services, including virtual networks, virtual machines, load balancers, databases, and more. The user's contributions demonstrate a focus on automating and documenting the deployment of Azure resources using Terraform and Docker.
Contributions:20 commits, 4 comments, 1 issue in 1 month
Contributions summary:Annie's contributions center around creating and configuring various example deployments within the Azure Resource Manager provider for Terraform. These examples showcase the deployment of infrastructure components such as virtual networks, virtual machines (including specialized and custom image configurations), load balancers, SQL databases, and service bus topics. The user consistently utilizes Docker for running Terraform commands within CI/CD pipelines, and modifies CI/CD configuration files for automated deployment and testing of these examples. Each commit adds a new example and its supporting files, suggesting the user focused on providing deployment examples for different Azure resources.
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