Yoko Hyakuna
Education Engineering Manager (Vault)
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYoko Hyakuna is an Education Engineering Manager at HashiCorp with 10+ years of experience building curriculum and developer-facing content for cloud and security products, now focused on Vault. She combines a strong technical foundation from early engineering roles with curriculum design expertise gained at AWS and IBM to translate complex distributed systems and secrets management into practical, instructor-led and self-serve learning. At HashiCorp she contributes to the flagship open-source Vault project—authoring and improving documentation and automation for features like Auto-unseal with AWS KMS, Transit re-wrapping, and Kubernetes authentication—bridging product, engineering, and user success. Based in San Francisco, she pairs a statistics MS and math BS with hands-on DevOps scripting to create reproducible demos and secure automation for operator workflows. Colleagues rely on her for clear, scalable education that accelerates adoption of security-first practices in production.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Mathematics, Bachelor of Science, Mathematics at Morehead State UniversityMaster of Science, Statistics, Master of Science, Statistics at Texas A&M University
Japanese
Github Skills (17)
kubernetes10
docker10
technical-writing10
bash10
dockers10
secrets10
automation10
vault10
kubernetes-pods10
automations10
documentation10
terraform9
cicd9
secret-management9
terraformer9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/vault-guides
Mar 2018 - Jul 2022
Example usage of HashiCorp Vault secrets management
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:57 reviews, 117 commits, 303 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Yoko primarily contributed to setting up and configuring infrastructure and automation scripts related to the HashiCorp Vault secrets management tool. Their work included creating and integrating scripts to create roles, configure policies, and manage Kubernetes authentication, indicating a focus on automating and securing Vault deployments within a Kubernetes environment. They also added demo scripts to showcase Vault usage and integrated features like Raft storage and autopilot. The commits also show modifications to the codebase itself.
hashicorp-vaultvault-secretsvaulthashicorpsecrets
hashicorp/vault
Jan 2018 - Jan 2023
A tool for secrets management, encryption as a service, and privileged access management
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:768 reviews, 285 commits, 807 PRs in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Yoko primarily contributed to documentation updates within the `hashicorp/vault` repository. Their commits demonstrate a focus on refining existing guides and creating new ones, including topics like Transit Secrets Re-wrapping, Disaster Recovery, Auto-unseal with AWS KMS, and direct application integration. The user also added and improved documentation for the Vault KV command.
golanghashicorp-vaultaccess-managementsecurityvault
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