Kit Haines
Software Engineer II at HashiCorp
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKit Haines is a Software Engineer II at HashiCorp with eight years of experience building backend systems and security-focused features. He is an active contributor to the widely used HashiCorp Vault project, concentrating on the PKI secrets engine and improving PKI roles endpoints, issuer validation, key type handling, and certificate metadata to strengthen certificate signing and issuer management. His MIT BS in Mathematics gives him a rigorous, analytical approach that complements his practical engineering. Prior roles at PaymentWorks and a multi-year stint as a Field Architect at Cambridge Semantics provide strong customer-facing and product-integration instincts. Based in Cambridge, MA, he blends open-source stewardship with production engineering to ship reliable infrastructure and security primitives.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science, Mathematics, Bachelors of Science, Mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (13)
secretsmanager10
secret-manager10
secret-management10
secrets-manager10
go10
secretmanager10
cryptography10
pki10
vault9
certificate-authority9
back-end-development9
api9
api-doc9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/vault
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
A tool for secrets management, encryption as a service, and privileged access management
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:289 reviews, 103 commits, 114 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Kit primarily contributed to the HashiCorp Vault project by fixing bugs and implementing features related to the PKI secrets engine. Their commits focused on validating and improving the functionality of the PKI roles endpoint, specifically concerning key types, issuer validation, and certificate metadata. These changes involved modifying code related to certificate signing, issuer management, and certificate generation within the PKI backend, contributing to the overall stability and usability of the Vault project.
golanghashicorp-vaultaccess-managementsecurityvault
aleph-oh/pax-populi-scheduler
Jan 2020 - Jan 2020
Project for the 2017 MIT IAP class Code for Good.
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 10 days
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