Thomas Hatch
Co-founder & CEO at ContextOS
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Hatch is a veteran software leader and entrepreneur with 15+ years building and securing large-scale IT infrastructure, best known as the creator of the Salt open-source automation project and founder/CTO of SaltStack. He blends deep hands-on engineering—contributing core Salt features like master statistics and orchestration pauses—with strategic leadership as a founder, CEO, and former senior engineering executive at VMware and Broadcom. Thomas has designed automated, hardened environments from enterprise data centers to IoT and U.S. intelligence-class deployments, earning industry recognition including GitHub Octoverse and Black Duck awards. He is a fluent practitioner of DevOps, backend systems, and infrastructure security, regularly sharing expertise at conferences and through a long-running tech podcast. Now based in Salt Lake City, he continues to found and advise companies while bringing pragmatic, security-first automation to complex global infrastructures.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Southern Utah University
Github Skills (12)
configuration-management10
automation10
automations10
saltstack10
devops10
python10
event-handling9
infrastructure-as-code9
infrastructure9
event-manager9
eventbus9
cloud-computing8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
saltstack/salt
Feb 2011 - Apr 2019
Software to automate the management and configuration of infrastructure and applications at scale.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 16996 commits, 1871 PRs in 8 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Thomas contributed to SaltStack's core functionality by introducing master statistics, enhancing the state system with orchestration pauses, and fixing bugs. Their work included implementing features related to master command processing, adding a prototype for master stats, and refining the state management logic. Furthermore, the user made changes to the configuration files to include the master statistics settings and added documentation for the new features.
pythonzeromqevent-streaminfrastructure-managementcloud-providers
saltstack/libnacl
May 2014 - Jul 2021
Python ctypes wrapper for libsodium
Contributions:273 commits, 52 PRs, 100 pushes in 7 years 2 months
pythonnim-langctypeslibsodiumctypes-wrapper
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