Michael Wood is Field CTO at HashiCorp. In his 20+ year career, he has gone from practitioner to executive. In driving large scale optimizations, Michael built best practice labs across the globe. He gained experience with all aspects of the developer experience, including onboarding, automated application scheduling, infrastructure, security automation, and more. In his spare time, he also runs an Apiary for honey bees, both for the honey and the ecological benefits to the area.