Kyle Ruddy
Senior Director Of Product Marketing, Infrastructure Lifecycle Management at HashiCorp
Tampa, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolKyle Ruddy is a senior product marketing leader with 13+ years of hands-on experience in cloud, virtualization, and infrastructure lifecycle management, currently leading Infrastructure Lifecycle Marketing at HashiCorp. A former VMware technical marketing architect and long-time PowerShell/VMware automation contributor, he blends deep systems expertise with go-to-market strategy—earning recognitions like Microsoft MVP and VMware vExpert. Kyle is a frequent speaker and technical reviewer who has translated complex operational practices into practical tooling and content, including widely used PowerCLI scripts for VMware automation. Based in Tampa, he pairs enterprise experience across VMware, EMC, Salesforce and HashiCorp with a history of community leadership (VMUG, vBrownBag) and security-focused training, making him effective at bridging engineering, product, and operator audiences.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Indiana University IndianapolisBachelor of Science Computer & Information Technology, Bachelor of Science Computer & Information Technology at Purdue University
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Github Skills (14)
powershell10
vsphere10
automation10
automations10
vmware10
powercli10
vmware-workstation10
vmware-tools10
esxi6
virtual-machine6
api6
esx6
pyvmomi6
vcenter6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
vmware/PowerCLI-Example-Scripts
Jul 2016 - Mar 2020
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer
Automation EngineerContributions:248 commits, 227 PRs, 206 pushes in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Kyle contributed several PowerShell scripts focused on VMware environments. Their work includes a Sysprep automation script for vCenter, tools for migrating to PowerCLI 6.5, functions for managing datastore SIOC statistics, and a script for finding network port IDs. Additionally, the user created functions for interacting with Horizon View environments, demonstrating a focus on automation and management within a VMware infrastructure.
kmruddy/Powershell
Aug 2014 - Oct 2017
Contributions:47 commits, 42 pushes in 3 years 3 months
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