HashiCorp, Inc. announced that Michael Weingartner has joined HashiCorp as its first Chief Product Officer (CPO), and that Talha Tariq has been promoted to Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Security Officer (CSO). Effective immediately, Weingartner and Tariq will both report to HashiCorp CEO Dave McJannet. In the newly created role, Weingartner will lead HashiCorp?s R&D organization, where he will manage day-to-day operations and execution of the overall research and development product strategy across HashiCorp?s entire product suite.

Armon Dadgar will continue in his role as Chief Technology Officer, where he interacts daily with HashiCorp customers and partners. Dadgar will continue to be deeply involved in driving product and technology strategy, working alongside the R&D leadership team to incorporate customer and partner feedback and market dynamics into roadmaps. Weingartner joins with a wealth of experience from SAP (where he was a customer of HashiCorp), Oracle, and most recently Google Cloud.

At Google, he focused on the strategy and development of the company?s cloud platform, incorporating generative AI throughout the development and operations of Google Cloud-based solutions. As part of his focus on developer experience, he championed HashiCorp Terraform as a key technology for Google Cloud. Weingartner has more than 30 years of leadership experience building teams that successfully manage the complex dynamics of high-value, high-quality software delivery.

Along with Weingartner?s appointment, HashiCorp is promoting Tariq to CIO and CSO, which will allow him to continue growing and scaling HashiCorp?s cloud-first security program with responsibility for security, technology and data engineering teams in alignment with R&D. Tariq has 20 years of experience building and scaling security programs from startups to Fortune 100 organizations. Prior to HashiCorp, Tariq served as Chief Information Security Officer at Anki and FinancialForce and held various security leadership positions at PwC and Microsoft. He serves as an advisor to security startups and works with clients across a range of industries on matters related to data breaches, intellectual property thefts, hacking events, forensic investigations, security program development, security operations, and threat and vulnerability assessments.