Vinny Mannello
Engineering Lead Staff Engineer at HashiCorp
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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RockstarVinny Mannello is an engineering lead and staff engineer based in Portland, Oregon, with four years of focused software engineering experience and a longer history in technical leadership and operations. At HashiCorp he contributes to Vault’s back-end, improving security and reliability through work on LDAP escaping, OpenAPI surface area, Raft snapshot/restore refactors, MFA login helpers, and namespace handling. Previously he built data platform capabilities at Apptio and ran solutions architecture and IT at smaller firms, giving him a practical blend of infrastructure, security-focused engineering, and operational ownership. He combines hands-on API and distributed-systems development with team leadership, shipping changes that prioritize stability and auditability. Active in open source, he contributes to a widely used security project (HashiCorp Vault), signaling both technical depth and commitment to production-grade tooling. Colleagues can expect a pragmatic engineer who moves between low-level protocol concerns and high-level platform design.
4 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (10)
user-authentication10
authentication10
go10
secrets10
vault10
api-design10
http9
testing8
openapi8
raft7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/vault
Dec 2021 - Jun 2022
A tool for secrets management, encryption as a service, and privileged access management
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:94 reviews, 25 commits, 16 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Vinny primarily contributed to the back-end logic and API functionality of the Vault project. They focused on enhancing the security and functionality of the system, as evidenced by their work on escaping LDAP values, expanding OpenAPI endpoints, and refactoring the Raft snapshot/restore process to use the `net/http` client. Furthermore, the user added MFA support to login helpers and implemented namespace handling. Their contributions improved the overall stability, security and capabilities of Vault.
golanghashicorp-vaultaccess-managementsecurityvault
hashicorp/Vault-DevEx-Usability-Study
May 2022 - Jun 2022
A collection of scenarios complete with preconfigured Vault instances and starter code
Contributions:13 commits in 1 month
instanceshashicorp-vaultpreconfiguredvaultscenarios
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