Paul Thrasher
Director Of Product Management at Personal
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Thrasher is a Director of Product Management and former staff software engineer with 17 years of experience building full-stack, cloud-native products from design through delivery. Based in San Francisco and currently at HashiCorp, he blends engineering, design, and product leadership to ship elegant, high-quality software—often rolling up his sleeves to contribute to core open-source projects like Terraform and its TFE provider. His technical breadth spans Swift, Node.js, Go, React/Ember, and AWS, with hands-on work normalizing provider state and adding import/features to widely used infrastructure tooling. A tireless team cheerleader and startup advisor, he also invests in early-stage companies and is actively exploring AI and LLMOps opportunities.
17 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BFA Computer Arts: New Media, BFA Computer Arts: New Media at Academy of Art UniversityArts, Arts at California State University, Fullerton
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/terraform-provider-tfe
Aug 2018 - Sep 2021
Official HCP Terraform and Terraform Enterprise provider, maintained by HashiCorp. Provision HCP Terraform or Terraform Enterprise - with Terraform!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Cloud Engineer
Back-end Developer & Cloud EngineerContributions:7 reviews, 20 commits, 5 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to the backend of the Terraform Provider for Terraform Enterprise (TFE) and HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP). They implemented `terraform import` support for several resources, enhancing the provider's functionality. Furthermore, the user updated dependencies, specifically `go-tfe`, and introduced features like adding workspace tags and managing organization settings via Terraform. Their work is evident in the Go code changes and modifications to the `go-tfe` library used for interacting with the TFE/HCP API.
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hashicorp/terraform
Apr 2015 - Dec 2020
Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure. It is a source-available tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned.
Role in this project:Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:30 commits, 18 PRs, 33 pushes in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to the `terraform` repository by making changes to the AWS provider. These changes focused on improving the handling of AWS resources, specifically by normalizing resource names (e.g., Elasticache clusters and DB option groups) to lowercase for consistency and correct state management. They also updated the Terraform Enterprise (TFE) backend, integrating cost estimation features and addressing pluralization issues in the TFE API. Furthermore, the user updated dependencies, ensuring the project uses the latest versions of go-tfe.
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