David Alexander
Resident Solutions Engineer, Sr. at HashiCorp
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Alexander is a Resident Solutions Engineer with 14 years of hands-on experience building secure, scalable infrastructure and developer workflows, currently running enterprise HashiCorp Vault services at scale. He blends SRE, application security, IAM, and infrastructure automation to reduce toil and harden large organizations—previously leading Vault operations and CI/CD, telemetry, and immutable infrastructure efforts at a Fortune 30 company. A pragmatic polyglot who prefers Go, Python, and Nix today, he’s also a core contributor to the InSpec security testing framework and has deep experience shifting organizations to pipeline-first, measurable practices. Known for meeting teams where they are, he moves between mentoring, deep legacy spelunking, and frontline incident work, and often converts complex compliance and secrets problems into simple, auditable patterns. Notably, he engineered a hot-standby Vault cluster and enterprise CI/CD integrations that materially reduced recovery time and improved security posture.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS Psychology Computer Science, BS Psychology Computer Science at Ball State University
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Github Skills (21)
inspec10
testing10
audit10
inspector10
auditing10
devsecops9
ruby9
security9
powershell9
chocolatey8
wmi8
devops8
tdd7
iframe6
macos6
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
inspec/inspec
Oct 2017 - Jul 2019
InSpec: Auditing and Testing Framework
Role in this project:
Security Engineer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Security Engineer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:16 commits, 11 PRs, 37 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributes to the security and testing aspects of the InSpec framework. Their work involves extending Windows ACL matchers to support more granular permission checks, enhancing the testing coverage for file and WMI resources, and fixing related bugs. The user added a new resource for Chocolatey packages and made improvements to the existing resources such as iis_app_pool by refactoring and adding support.
testingauditinspecsecuritycompliance
TheLonelyGhost/terraform-provider-vault
Jul 2020 - Jul 2025
Terraform Vault provider
Contributions:10 pushes, 9 branches in 5 years 1 month
providervaulthashicorpterraformterraform-provider
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