Jared Baker
Senior Engineer at HashiCorp
Richmond, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJared Baker is a Senior Engineer with nine years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and identity tooling, currently working on the Terraform AWS Provider at HashiCorp. He brings deep backend and DevOps expertise demonstrated by significant contributions to Terraform itself—improving the S3 backend’s authentication, object lock, versioning, and proxy workflows—and to the terraform-provider-aws for endpoint, deployment, and migration stability. Prior to HashiCorp he led Cloud IAM efforts at Capital One, delivering programmatic least-privilege enforcement, a Go-based SDK/CLI/Terraform provider, and an enterprise integration that automated IAM for hundreds of teams. Jared’s background spans cross-functional systems: production web services, REST APIs, CI/CD migrations, and data-driven fraud platforms, rooted in a Mechanical Engineering degree with a 3.75 GPA. He combines systems-level thinking with pragmatic automation, often translating complex security requirements into reliable developer-facing tools. Based in Richmond, VA, he’s the kind of engineer who moves between infrastructure plumbing and product-facing integrations with equal fluency.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Mechanical Engineering, 3.75, Bachelor of Science (BS), Mechanical Engineering, 3.75 at The Ohio State University
Github Skills (21)
cloud-infrastructure10
terraform10
cicd10
aws-sdk10
terraformer10
infrastructure10
go10
aws10
amazon-s310
aws-s310
infrastructure-as-code10
cloud-services10
s3-bucket10
back-end-development9
python9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
The AWS Provider enables Terraform to manage AWS resources.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1547 reviews, 371 commits, 1870 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Jared's commits primarily focused on a variety of tasks related to infrastructure, backend logic, and bug fixes. The contributions included changes to endpoint configurations and modifications to deployment configurations. Further, the user demonstrated experience with various cloud services and automation tools. Additionally, the commits indicate the user worked on migration and stability updates.
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hashicorp/terraform
Jul 2023 - Mar 2025
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:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:84 reviews, 64 PRs, 77 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Jared primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Terraform project, focusing on the S3 backend. The commits involved adding and deprecating arguments for authentication workflows, custom CA bundles, and proxy settings. They also implemented features for handling account ID restrictions, as well as object lock and versioning improvements. The user's work demonstrates expertise in enhancing the S3 backend's configuration and functionality.
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