James Bayer
Product and Security Executive
I love Security, Infrastructure, and Products.
Now-2025
Taking a break. Open to advising and collaborating on security, infrastructure, applications, and security related topics.
2025-2019
Lead PM and Secure Products orgs at HashiCorp, joined in 2019, helped take the company public, and left near the IBM acquisition in early 2025.
2019-2011
VP of Product at Pivotal. Worked on Cloud Foundry,
spun out of VMware, helped take the company public, and left during the VMware acquisition.
2010-1999
Variety of software development, pre-sales, and PM roles working with Java Middleware for Oracle, BEA Systems, Cordys, and IBM.
1999-1995
BS in Computer Science and Mathematics at University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
