The original author of terraform (Mitchel Hashimoto) was not an Operations Engineer before writing Terraform?

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mitchellh/

Or are you saying that he's not the author? Commits seem to suggest otherwise.

  commit fb9c58f0e20a85a5358142ddb39a2f74d3bbe69b
  Author: Mitchell Hashimoto <mitchell.hashimoto@gmail.com>
  Date:   Fri May 23 11:03:38 2014 -0700

     config: better error message

  commit 089822a36f0a5e4c583ab401b7496b48bfa31d65
  Author: Mitchell Hashimoto <mitchell.hashimoto@gmail.com>
  Date:   Fri May 23 10:52:19 2014 -0700

     config: some comments

  commit ec3f72703c82f50787ef86498d856a5798900ad8
  Author: Mitchell Hashimoto <mitchell.hashimoto@gmail.com>
  Date:   Thu May 22 16:56:28 2014 -0700

     Initial work on config

  commit 649cf336e86da10910f6e50ea3cfaad507a2e336
  Author: Mitchell Hashimoto <mitchell.hashimoto@gmail.com>
  Date:   Wed May 21 16:28:53 2014 -0700

     Initial commit