Matthew Irish
Principal Engineer at HashiCorp
Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Irish is a Principal Engineer with 14 years of experience building polished user experiences and secure backend systems, currently driving architecture and delivery at HashiCorp. He blends front-end sensibility—from modular reading platforms and large JavaScript apps—to deep backend work, notably contributing transit key enhancements to the widely used Vault secrets management project. Based in Prairie Village, Kansas, he specializes in modern web technologies and pragmatic security improvements that materially strengthen secret-handling capabilities. Known for sweating the details, he pairs UX-driven thinking with systems-level rigor and a history of mentoring teams on adopting the right tools for the job.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BA Art History, BA Art History at Truman State University
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Github Skills (6)
secret-management10
go10
encryption10
api-design9
vault9
cryptography8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/vault
Oct 2016 - Feb 2022
A tool for secrets management, encryption as a service, and privileged access management
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:42 reviews, 455 commits, 421 PRs in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to enhancing the functionality of transit keys within the Vault project, specifically by adding support for various encryption, decryption, and signing operations. They introduced new features such as the supports_* fields for transit key reads, integrated the min_encryption_version to the transit key response, and updated policy configurations. These changes focused on strengthening the security and capabilities of the transit secret engine, which is integral to secure secret management.
access-managementencryptionvaultgosecrets
meirish/backbone-intro
Oct 2011 - Apr 2012
Contributions:13 commits in 5 months
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