Rachel Culpepper
Engineer at HashiCorp
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRachel Culpepper is an engineer with four years of experience building backend systems and secure services from Cambridge, MA. She has worked at HashiCorp since 2021, contributing to Vault—an industry-leading open-source secrets management tool—where she implemented CMAC key support, hybrid key creation, and refactored core backend logic for performance and stability. Prior roles at Capital One and Goldman Sachs sharpened her skills in Java APIs, testing, and production-grade integrations. Rachel combines practical fintech and security-focused engineering experience with a proven track record of contributing meaningful changes to a high-profile open-source security project.
5 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Richmond
Github Skills (12)
secret-management10
secrets-manager10
go10
cryptography10
vault10
security9
apidoc9
testing9
api9
algorithms8
data-structures8
data-structure8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/vault
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
A tool for secrets management, encryption as a service, and privileged access management
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:66 reviews, 95 commits, 154 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Rachel primarily focused on enhancing the `hashicorp/vault` project, contributing significant updates to the backend logic. Their work included implementing new features, such as adding support for CMAC key types and hybrid key creation. They also addressed critical areas by fixing build tags, improving password policy testing, and refactoring core functionalities for improved performance and stability.
access-managementencryptionvaultgosecrets
hashicorp/web-unified-docs
Jul 2025 - May 2026
Hashicorp Unified Docs
Contributions:3 reviews, 6 PRs, 4 pushes in 9 months
hashicorp
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