Vercel Adds HashiCorp Co-Founder Mitchell Hashimoto To Board Of Directors
KUALA LUMPUR, March 19 (Bernama) -- Vercel, the agentic infrastructure company, has appointed Mitchell Hashimoto, co-founder of HashiCorp and creator of industry-defining open source tools including Terraform and Vagrant, to its board of directors.
Vercel founder and chief executive officer, Guillermo Rauch said Hashimoto is an exceptional advisor who has built tools used by millions of developers, scaled a company to a multi-billion dollar outcome, and returned to building at the forefront of technology.
“He has been a Vercel customer and Next.js user since our earliest days. There are not many people who understand our mission more, and we are honoured to have him on the board,” added Rauch in a statement.
Meanwhile, Hashimoto highlighted his long-standing connection with Vercel as a key reason for joining.
“I have watched Vercel grow from the perspective of a founder, an engineer, and a customer, and I am excited to help in every way I can as they build the agentic infrastructure for frontends, backends, and agents,” he said.
Bringing a unique combination of developer credibility, open source leadership, and company-building experience at scale, Hashimoto co-founded HashiCorp in 2012 and served as principal architect behind some of the most widely adopted infrastructure tools in the world.
After leaving HashiCorp, he launched Ghostty, a graphics processing unit (GPU)-accelerated, platform-native terminal emulator that quickly became a leader among artificial intelligence (AI) developers following its public release in December 2024.
Hashimoto joins Vercel at a moment of strong momentum for the company, following its US$300 million Series F funding round at a US$9.3 billion valuation, and becomes part of a distinguished board including Stripe CFO Steffan Tomlinson and Susan St Ledger, former President of Worldwide Field Operations at HashiCorp. (US$1=RM3.93)
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