Christopher Griggs
Product Manager, Terraform at HashiCorp
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Griggs is a product manager at HashiCorp with nine years of experience shaping Terraform’s developer experience and partner ecosystem. He combines hands-on engineering contributions—restructuring Terraform docs and improving provider discoverability—with go-to-market roles from alliances to partner solutions, giving him a rare product+partner perspective. Based in Oakland, he has driven integrations and documentation for a wide range of providers on terraform.io and contributed code and dependency work across provider projects. Christopher’s background in engineering and sales at HashiCorp enables him to translate technical complexity into clear product priorities and partner outcomes. Notably, his work touches one of the most widely used IaC projects, hashicorp/terraform, where he focused on navigation and documentation that help teams adopt providers faster. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from California State University, Chico.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at California State University, Chico
Github Skills (22)
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cloud-manager10
cloud-infrastructure10
terraform10
terraform-provider10
terraformer10
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content-management10
aac10
infrastructure-as-code10
documentation10
erb9
html9
state-management8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/terraform
Dec 2017 - Oct 2021
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:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 336 commits, 517 PRs in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily worked on restructuring the documentation website for Terraform providers, categorized by type. They modified the website's layouts, specifically the `docs.erb` file, to implement a new navigation system with provider categories. Additionally, the user merged various branches, indicating involvement in integrating changes from different development streams, and fixed merge conflicts. These contributions suggest a focus on improving the discoverability and organization of Terraform's documentation, making it more user-friendly.
versionedconfiguration-filescloud-managementawscloud
hashicorp/terraform-website
Jun 2018 - Feb 2022
Build configuration and partial content for terraform.io
Role in this project:Technical Writer / Documentation Specialist
Technical Writer / Documentation SpecialistContributions:3 reviews, 148 commits, 166 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily contributed to the project by adding documentation for various Terraform provider integrations. Their work involved creating layout files referencing documentation for a wide range of providers, including Netlify, OCI, RightScale, and many others. They focused on integrating submodules and adding relevant links to support Terraform's ecosystem. This suggests a strong emphasis on expanding the website's content related to providers.
build-configurationpartialpartial-contentterraform
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