Michael Smithhisler
Software Engineer at HashiCorp
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Smithhisler is a software engineer with a background in enterprise technology sales and five years of hands-on engineering experience across Alteryx and HashiCorp. He transitioned from client-facing roles at IBM—where he helped customers manage hybrid IT—to building production software, moving from intern to senior engineer at Alteryx before joining HashiCorp. His work blends customer empathy from sales with technical rigor, enabling him to prioritize developer experience and real-world reliability. Michael is pursuing advanced study in computer science at Georgia Tech while bringing practical cloud and data tooling experience from Columbus, Ohio. He has a demonstrated track record of accelerating through roles and aligning product engineering with customer needs, especially in hybrid and cloud-native environments. Colleagues describe him as someone who leverages sales-honed communication to surface critical product improvements that engineers often miss.
5 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Computer Science, M.S., Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyB.S., B.S. at The Ohio State University
Github Skills (52)
rendering10
consul10
vault10
microservices10
letsencrypt9
sandbox9
terraform9
terraform-provider9
podman9
hashicorp9
docker9
golang9
load-balancer9
driver9
boolean-expression8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mismithhisler/kickstart.nvim
Aug 2024 - Jan 2026
Forked kickstart.nvim with added configurations
Contributions:7 pushes in 1 year 5 months
mismithhisler/consul-template
Dec 2024 - Dec 2024
Template rendering, notifier, and supervisor for @HashiCorp Consul and Vault data.
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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