Melisa Griffin
Software Engineering Manager at HashiCorp
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolMelisa Griffin is a software engineering manager with 10 years of experience building cloud-native, high-availability systems using Go, AWS, and Terraform, now leading engineering at HashiCorp. She moved up from senior engineer roles at HashiCorp and WarnerMedia after earlier R&D and data roles, bringing a pragmatic blend of hands-on coding and team leadership. Melisa contributes to prominent open-source infrastructure work—recently improving routing, validation, and proto definitions in HashiCorp Consul’s API Gateway—showing deep familiarity with distributed systems and service mesh concerns. Based in Atlanta, she pairs a Computer Science degree from Florida State with a practitioner’s focus on reliable production services and subtle attention to edge-case correctness in routing and gateway configuration.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Florida State UniversityAssociate’s Degree, Associate’s Degree at Gulf Coast State College
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Github Skills (9)
service-mesh10
consul10
go10
api-gateway10
protobuffer9
protobuf9
configuration-management9
kubernetes8
kubernetes-pods8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/consul
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:112 reviews, 1 commit, 52 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Melisa contributed to the development and refinement of the Consul API Gateway, specifically focusing on routing and configuration. Their work included normalizing service weights for HTTP routes, addressing division errors, and adding validation checks for MeshGateway. They also contributed to the proto definitions for GatewayClass and updated existing mesh gateway code. This involved modifying Go code, updating configuration files, and working with protobuf definitions.
consuldata-centerservice-meshservice-discoverykubernetes
missylbytes/FoodList
Jul 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:36 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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