Devashish Patel is an engineering manager with 9 years of experience building secure, scalable infrastructure and developer tooling at enterprise scale, currently leading teams at HashiCorp (an IBM company). He combines hands-on backend contributions—such as migrating HCP Packer to API v2 and improving SBOM and audit logging—with people leadership that grew and promoted engineering talent while halving sprint cycles and boosting delivery. His work enabled regulated-market adoption (air-gapped/on-prem) that created a $100M incremental revenue pipeline and expanded Packer to IBM Z mainframes, directly influencing major enterprise deals. A pragmatic systems thinker, he prototypes AI-assisted workflows to automate provisioning and anomaly detection and holds peer-reviewed publications, patents, and journal editorial roles. Active in open source, he contributed to the widely used packer project (HCP integrations and build metadata), underscoring his ability to move core infra projects from design to production. Based in Nashville, he pairs deep distributed-systems and security expertise with a track record of turning compliance and performance goals into commercial outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science & Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science & Engineering at Gujarat Technological University (GTU)
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Texas A&M University
Packer is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:44 reviews, 1 commit, 26 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Devashish primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the Packer tool, focusing on the HCP Packer registry integration. Their work involved migrating the HCP Packer to API V2, updating nomenclature, and modifying internal APIs. The user also made changes to incorporate build metadata, including version information and plugin details, to be sent to HCP Packer in the UpdateBuild API. In addition, the user worked on the hcp-sbom provisioner.
Contributions:36 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 11 months
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Devashish Patel - Engineering Manager at HashiCorp