JD Goins
Staff Resident Architect at HashiCorp
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolJD Goins is a DevOps and cloud architect with a decade of experience designing and operationalizing enterprise-scale AWS solutions and CI/CD platforms. Now a Staff Resident Architect at HashiCorp after progressing through senior resident roles, he blends hands-on automation with strategic guidance to accelerate DevOps transformations for large organizations. His background includes leading cloud delivery and cross-team initiatives at Progressive, consulting on next-gen projects at Maven Wave, and building automation foundations at Agilent. JD is known for extracting reusable architectural patterns and driving platform autonomy that reduces operational load for application teams. Based in Denver, he pairs practical coaching and training with deep technical delivery, often serving as the primary liaison across organizations. Beyond tooling, he focuses on reshaping delivery practices to meet the needs of the most mature cloud users.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Information Technology, Bachelor of Science Information Technology at Rochester Institute of Technology
English
Github Skills (66)
encryption10
secrets10
vault10
go10
spec10
terraform-provider10
aws10
markdown9
inspec9
testing9
hugo9
terraform9
security9
chef-workstation9
devrel9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jdgoins/chef-web-docs
Feb 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:2 pushes in 7 months
jdgoins/trigger-testing
Apr 2026 - Jun 2026
Contributions:7 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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