Michele Degges
Sr. Engineering Manager at HashiCorp
Sacramento, California, United States
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Top SchoolMichele Degges is a senior engineering manager with a decade of experience building and leading distributed systems and release engineering teams, currently steering engineering at HashiCorp from Sacramento. She combines hands-on backend and DevOps expertise—contributing to high-profile open-source projects like Consul and Boundary—with a manager’s focus on automating tedious work and improving build, release, and deployment workflows. At HashiCorp she’s driven API and ACL improvements as well as infrastructure-level build tooling changes that reduced external dependencies and modernized release processes. Previously she led a global release engineering team, migrated infrastructure between cloud providers at Unity, and built developer-facing CI/CD tooling and access workflows that sped troubleshooting and incident response. Michele is known for mentoring engineers, creating practical onboarding documentation, and translating operational pain points into durable automation. She’s as comfortable in code and build scripts as she is coaching teams to stay challenged and continuously improve.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Criminal Justice, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Criminal Justice at Indiana University Bloomington
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (28)
service-mesh10
develop10
apidoc10
authentication10
hashicorp10
cicd10
consul10
automation10
go10
api10
authorization10
automations10
backend10
auth10
github-ci9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/boundary
Feb 2021 - Jul 2022
Boundary enables identity-based access management for dynamic infrastructure.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:18 reviews, 56 commits, 41 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Michele primarily focused on infrastructure and build process improvements within the repository. Their contributions included removing dependencies on external artifact repositories, adopting a new GPG key, upgrading the build node version and related packages, integrating the project with common release tooling, and updating build scripts. These changes suggest a focus on improving the build, release, and deployment workflows for the project. Additionally, the commits update the version number.
boundaryaccess-managementsecurityinfrastructurehashicorp
hashicorp/consul
Feb 2021 - 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:16 reviews, 80 commits, 49 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Michele primarily focused on modifying the Consul API, updating and deprecating older functionalities, and integrating newer features such as ACL token management and binding rules. The commits show extensive work within the `api` package, specifically with regards to ACL implementation including token management, policy management, role management and binding rules. They also modified catalog and config entry files.
api-gatewayecsgolangcenterdistributed
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