Sam Salisbury
Senior Security Engineer II at HashiCorp
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSam Salisbury is a Senior Security Engineer II with 12 years of experience building automation, developer productivity tools, and secure software supply chains, currently driving security tooling at HashiCorp. A Go specialist, he combines deep hands-on engineering with a knack for translating complex business requirements into tractable, long-lived systems that teams can operate reliably. His background spans designing declarative, audit-friendly deploy systems (Sous at OpenTable), production-grade monitoring and actionable dashboards, and migrating CI/CD and build systems for projects like HashiCorp Vault and Boundary. Known for a friendly, educational approach to mentoring and code review, he focuses teams on essentials to deliver accurate, timely value. Sam’s contributions to well-known open-source security and infra projects show practical expertise in industrialising secure workflows and streamlining testing and release pipelines. Based in the UK with a First-Class BSc in Software Engineering, he pairs pragmatic engineering with strong cross-team communication.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Software Engineering, First Class with Honours, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Software Engineering, First Class with Honours at Liverpool John Moores University
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Github Skills (28)
unit-testing10
assertion10
github-ci10
docker10
testing10
dockers10
cicd10
go10
ci-cd-pipeline10
dotnet-core10
githubaction-workflow10
csharp10
echo9
dotnet9
hashicorp9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/boundary
Sep 2020 - Nov 2022
Boundary enables identity-based access management for dynamic infrastructure.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:17 reviews, 75 commits, 14 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Sam focused on improving the build and release process for the Boundary project. They made several commits related to package management with packagespec, upgrading the tool and fixing related CI configurations. Additionally, the user addressed issues with the UI versioning and build, including setting up the correct commit checkout. Furthermore, the user removed unnecessary authentication steps and other build configurations.
boundaryaccess-managementsecurityinfrastructurehashicorp
hashicorp/vault
May 2019 - Oct 2021
A tool for secrets management, encryption as a service, and privileged access management
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:39 reviews, 295 commits, 172 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Sam's contributions primarily revolved around managing and updating the CI/CD pipeline. Their work included modifying configuration files for testing environments, refactoring and renaming test suites, and migrating from Travis to other CI systems. They ensured efficient testing by configuring browserstack and incorporating go mod vendor. The user also focused on streamlining build processes.
golanghashicorp-vaultaccess-managementsecurityvault
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