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Co-founding HashiCorp in 2012 and architecting Vault, Consul, and Nomad—tools now embedded in Fortune 500 infrastructure—Dadgar built an open-source-first enterprise from scratch to a $6.4 billion IBM acquisition in 2024.
Armon Dadgar is the Co-Founder and former CTO of HashiCorp, now an IBM company following its $6.4 billion acquisition in 2024.
Dadgar co-founded HashiCorp in 2012 with Mitchell Hashimoto, defining the architecture of widely used cloud infrastructure tools including Vault, Consul, and Nomad. Born in Iran and raised in the United States, he is a leading voice on distributed systems, security, and open-source software.
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