John-michael Faircloth
Senior Software Engineer at HashiCorp
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolJohn-michael Faircloth is a Senior Software Engineer based in Austin with 11 years of experience building secure, backend systems at scale. Currently at HashiCorp, he focuses on improving authentication, secrets management, and reliable server behavior—contributions that include OIDC and AppRole enhancements and fixes for LDAP timeouts. An active open-source contributor, he has deep hands-on experience with HashiCorp projects like Vault and the go-plugin RPC system, notably improving auto-mTLS behavior and certificate handling. He combines practical DevOps instincts with a security-first mindset and a track record of turning tricky distributed-systems bugs into tested, production-ready fixes.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at University of Houston
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Github Skills (25)
unit-testing10
tls1210
apidoc10
secret-management10
user-authentication10
authentication10
tls1310
mtls10
secrets-manager10
go10
api10
vault10
libtls10
ldap9
server-configuration9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/vault
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
A tool for secrets management, encryption as a service, and privileged access management
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:970 reviews, 240 commits, 636 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:John-michael contributed to the HashiCorp Vault project by refactoring code related to the approle authentication method, converting callback functionalities into operations to resolve issues with performance standbys. Their work involved modifying the path_login.go file, specifically altering operations within the framework. Additionally, they addressed a request timeout bug within the ldap authentication method, fixing request timeouts, and contributed to the mongodb atlas plugin. Furthermore, they implemented enhancements to the OIDC provider, including the OIDC provider assignment API, OIDC provider scope API, and added tests.
access-managementencryptionvaultgosecrets
hashicorp/go-plugin
Apr 2022 - Dec 2022
Golang plugin system over RPC.
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:4 releases, 23 reviews, 21 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:John-michael primarily contributed to improving the plugin system's underlying functionality and testing infrastructure. They fixed issues related to mutual TLS communication and certificate handling, and also added comprehensive unit tests for the auto-MTLS feature. Further work included refining server configurations and addressing log messages. The user demonstrated a strong understanding of security best practices, along with server and client configurations.
golangrpc
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