The Stack Overflow Podcast

Moving from CEO back to IC: A chat with Mitchell Hashimoto on his love for code

Neopets : A little-known gateway into a software career. (Nineties kids will remember.) Among the products Mitchell helped build at Hashicorp: Terraform , Vagrant , and Vault . Not many C-level execs return to IC roles, but you might be surprised how many managers move back to being individual contributors . Follow Mitchell on Twitter here .