Tom Chwojko-frank
Director Of Engineering at HashiCorp
Kirkland, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Chwojko-frank is a seasoned engineering leader and Director of Engineering based in Kirkland, Washington, with a long track record of building and scaling high-performing teams and complex infrastructure products. He combines hands-on systems and language expertise (Golang, Java, C/C++) with practical Agile leadership—certified as a Scrum Master—and a people-first approach that tailors process to team needs. At HashiCorp he led Vault engineering to deliver critical identity-based security infrastructure and earlier drove cloud and microservices initiatives at F5 and NGINX Controller. His career includes VP-level R&D roles where he improved test, build, and release systems and even holds a patent for character identification through glyph matching, reflecting deep technical problem solving. Known for mentoring engineering managers and growing organizations from small teams into large, distributed groups, he prioritizes iterative customer value and measurable product impact. He pairs academic foundations (MS Computer Science, BA Mathematics) with decades of practical experience shipping secure, scalable enterprise software.
3 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Mathematics, BA, Mathematics at Northwestern UniversityMS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at University of Denver
Github Skills (38)
hashicorp-vault10
secrets10
security10
go10
kubernetes-secrets10
vault10
golang10
access-management10
encryption10
hashicorp9
azure-authentication9
csi9
redis-database9
openldap8
paseto8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/vault-plugin-database-redis
May 2024 - Mar 2025
A Vault plugin for the REDIS database
Contributions:5 reviews, 5 PRs, 7 pushes in 10 months
redisvaultdatabaseredis-databasevault-plugin
hashicorp/vault-servicenow-credential-resolver
Sep 2023 - Sep 2024
Contributions:2 reviews in 1 year
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