Melissa Kam
Senior Software Engineer II at HashiCorp
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMelissa Kam is a Senior Software Engineer II based in Austin with 11 years of experience building reliable backend systems and cloud integrations. She has progressed through roles at Rackspace and Apple into HashiCorp, where she contributes to Consul and HCP integration work—designing SCADA providers, telemetry configuration, and token upsert flows for production-grade distributed systems. Comfortable at the intersection of backend engineering and DevOps, she brings strong operational sensibilities from test-driven roles early in her career. Trained as an Electrical and Computer Engineer at UT Austin, she blends systems thinking with practical engineering, often surfacing small but impactful automation and configuration improvements that improve reliability at scale.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (13)
consul10
configurations10
go10
devops9
telemetry9
service-discovery8
kubernetes8
service-mesh8
kubernetes-pods8
api-design7
automations7
automation7
api7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/consul
Jul 2021 - Jan 2022
Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:126 reviews, 41 commits, 82 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Melissa primarily contributed to the backend infrastructure and cloud configuration of the Consul project, focusing on the integration with HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP). Their work involved developing and updating the SCADA provider within the HCP manager, including the creation of mock providers and configuration updates. They also worked on the HCP telemetry configuration and the management token upserting process, demonstrating an understanding of the system's cloud integration and operational aspects.
api-gatewayecsgolangcenterdistributed
mkam/consul
May 2021 - Feb 2024
Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.
Contributions:50 pushes, 11 branches in 2 years 9 months
golangcenterdistributeddata-centerinfrastructure
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