John Goldsmith
Software Engineer II - Vault Customer Engineering at HashiCorp
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Goldsmith is a pragmatic software engineer with 11 years of experience focusing on reliability, troubleshooting, and secrets management; he currently engineers customer-facing fixes and tooling for HashiCorp Vault in Amsterdam. He specializes in Golang and builds faithful reproductions of customer environments across Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, and major clouds to rapidly triage and resolve sensitive escalations. His open-source contributions to hashicorp/vault show a focus on stabilizing authentication paths and improving observability through better logging and defensive checks. Previously he combined SRE, DevOps, and support leadership roles at New Relic and Intuit, which honed his ability to translate hard production problems into reproducible engineering fixes. Colleagues rely on him to dig into thorny, high-impact bugs others avoid, and he balances that with a creative sabbatical background in music that speaks to an unconventional problem-solving style.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Physics/Mathmatics, Physics/Mathmatics at City College of San Francisco
Github Skills (9)
authentication10
user-authentication10
go10
secrets10
vault10
error-handling9
ldap9
debug8
debugging8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/vault
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
A tool for secrets management, encryption as a service, and privileged access management
Role in this project:
Backend Engineer
Backend EngineerContributions:15 reviews, 22 PRs, 32 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:John primarily contributed to backend logic, focusing on enhancements and bug fixes within the Vault codebase. Their work involved updating dependencies, adding checks for nil values within the queue, implementing debug-level logging for LDAP authentication, and addressing issues with the RADIUS authentication module. These contributions demonstrate a focus on improving stability, logging, and functionality within the authentication and secret management features of Vault.
golanghashicorp-vaultaccess-managementsecurityvault
lemurgency/music-snob
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:86 commits, 71 pushes, 2 comments in 4 days
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