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Vercel appoints Mitchell Hashimoto, co-founder of HashiCorp and creator of Terraform, to board of directors.

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Vercel Inc. hired Mitchell Hashimoto as board of directors on Mar 19th '26.

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Vercel appoints Mitchell Hashimoto, co-founder of HashiCorp and creator of Terraform, to board of directors. * March 20, 2026 08:12 GMT+700 Open source pioneer and serial founder brings deep developer community roots and infrastructure expertise to Vercel's board San Francisco-(ANTARA/Business Wire)-Vercel, the agentic infrastructure company, today announced the appointment of Mitchell Hashimoto, co-founder of HashiCorp and creator of industry-defining open source tools including Terraform and Vagrant, to its board of directors. Hashimoto brings a rare combination of developer community credibility, open source leadership, and company-building experience at scale. Hashimoto co-founded HashiCorp in 2012, where he served as a principal architect and engineering leader behind some of the most widely adopted infrastructure tools in the world. Terraform, which he created, has become the de facto standard for infrastructure-as-code and is used by organizations of every scale, including Vercel itself. IBM acquired HashiCorp in 2024 in a transaction valued at approximately $6.4 billion. After departing HashiCorp, Hashimoto launched Ghostty, a GPU-accelerated, platform-native terminal emulator that quickly became a market leader among AI developers since its public release in December 2024. "Mitchell is inimitable as an advisor: he's built tools that nearly every developer uses...

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Executive hire

What this signalsA new leader often reviews the tools the team uses.

Person
Mitchell Hashimotoboard of directors
Takes effect
Mar 19, 2026

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Detected
Mar 19, 2026
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