Ting Li
Sr. Solutions Architect Specialist, Hashicorp, ex-MSFT
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Ting Li
Sr. Solutions Architecture Specialist | Terraform Expert | Speaker | ex-Microsoft
Ting Li is a seasoned technology leader with over 19 years of experience in IT, specializing in infrastructure automation, project management, and cybersecurity. As a Sr. Solutions Architecture Specialist at HashiCorp, she helps organizations design and implement scalable, secure, and automated solutions.
Previously, Ting spent 11 years at Microsoft, where she worked across Sales, Marketing, and Product teams, collaborating with global enterprises to drive digital transformation. Her expertise spans both pre-sales and post-sales engagements, with a strong focus on customer enablement and solution delivery.
A passionate advocate for knowledge sharing, Ting has been a featured speaker at major industry events, including Microsoft TechEd (2006–2008, 2016), Microsoft product launches for Office and Windows, Seattle HUG, HashiCorp webinars, and various local meetups. She is committed to training and mentoring teams, partners, and customers, empowering them to maximize the value of HashiCorp’s products and solutions.
Ting is also a blogger and thought leader, sharing her insights on Terraform workflows, infrastructure automation, and best practices. Her posts, such as "Which Terraform Workflow Should I Use? VCS, CLI, or API?" and "Optimizing Your DevOps with Terraform", have been widely read by IT professionals looking to streamline their operations and improve collaboration.
Beyond her professional work, Ting enjoys traveling with her family, hitting the slopes, and writing books.
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Terraform Policy Enforcement: A Practical Guide to Sentinel and OPA
As infrastructure as code grows in scale and complexity, programmatic policy enforcement is critical for security, compliance, and operational consistency. HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) Terraform allows teams to codify and enforce rules using policy-as-code frameworks such as Sentinel and Open Policy Agent (OPA).
This session tackles key adoption questions: Which framework is best to start with? Which scales across multiple products? What trade-offs should you consider when choosing an approach?
You’ll learn how both frameworks integrate into Terraform workflows, the data and context they expose, and how to implement guardrails without slowing development. Real-world examples will demonstrate how organizations validate configurations, enforce security controls, and maintain compliance at scale.
We’ll also compare usability, extensibility, and cross-platform support to help you select the right solution for your environment. Whether you’re a platform engineer, DevOps practitioner, or technical decision-maker, you’ll leave with practical guidance, proven best practices, and a clear path to implementing effective policy as code for secure, well-governed infrastructure.
Mastering Terraform: A Deep Dive into Essential Workflows
Terraform offers multiple workflows to manage infrastructure as code, but choosing the right one is key to achieving efficiency, scalability, and security. In this session, we’ll take a deep dive into the three core Terraform workflows — CLI-driven, VCS-driven, and API-driven — and explore how each fits different organizational needs and team structures.
We’ll start by breaking down what each workflow looks like in practice, from individual developer usage to large-scale automation. Using real-world examples and live demos, we’ll walk through how to configure and operate these workflows, what trade-offs to expect, and how to evolve from one to another as your infrastructure and team maturity grow.
This talk builds on my blog post “Which Terraform Workflow Should I Use? VCS, CLI, or API?” and expands on it with new content inspired by attendee feedback and hallway conversations from HashiConf 2025. We’ll review a comparison matrix highlighting differences in setup effort, maintenance overhead, security posture, and architectural complexity — helping you map Terraform workflows directly to your organization’s operational model.
By the end of the session, platform engineers, DevOps practitioners, and infrastructure architects will have a clear framework to evaluate and choose the most suitable Terraform workflow for their environment. Whether your goal is to empower developers with self-service infrastructure, standardize deployments through version control, or fully automate provisioning via APIs, this session provides practical guidance to balance flexibility, control, and compliance.
This has been one of the most popular sessions at HashiConf — and this year, it returns with updated insights, deeper technical examples, and fresh community-driven perspectives to help teams get the most out of Terraform’s workflow ecosystem.
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