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  "markdown": "Co-founder and CEO.\n\nJoe Duffy co-founded Pulumi, the infrastructure as code company, in 2017 with Eric Rudder and is its CEO. Before Pulumi he spent more than a decade on developer tools at Microsoft, where he ran the languages teams and developer tools strategy.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joejduffy\n- X: https://x.com/funcOfJoe\n\n## What Joe builds\n\n- [Pulumi ESC](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pulumi-esc.md), graded BB, 71.2/100, in Secrets \u0026 credential vaults. Pulumi ESC is the secrets and configuration service in Pulumi Cloud. Environments hold static secrets, pull from other vaults and issue short-lived cloud credentials over OIDC, read through the Pulumi CLI, a REST API and four SDKs. Co-founder and CEO, researched 2026-10-26.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Eric Rudder](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/eric-rudder/), Co-founder and Executive Chairman\n- [Tatiana Cooke](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/tatiana-cooke/), Head of Product\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Madrona](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/madrona/)\n- [New Enterprise Associates](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/new-enterprise-associates/)\n- [Tola Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/tola-capital/)\n- [Strike Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/strike-capital/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Joe Duffy?\n\nJoe Duffy co-founded Pulumi, the infrastructure as code company, in 2017 with Eric Rudder and is its CEO. Before Pulumi he spent more than a decade on developer tools at Microsoft, where he ran the languages teams and developer tools strategy.\n\n### What does Pulumi Corporation make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Pulumi ESC from Pulumi Corporation. Pulumi ESC is the secrets and configuration service in Pulumi Cloud. Environments hold static secrets, pull from other vaults and issue short-lived cloud credentials over OIDC, read through the Pulumi CLI, a REST API and four SDKs.\n\n### Who has invested in Pulumi Corporation?\n\nThe sources our research read name Madrona, New Enterprise Associates, Tola Capital and Strike Capital.\n\n### How are Joe's tools graded?\n\nPulumi ESC is graded BB, 71.2 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.pulumi.com/about/leadership/\n- https://www.pulumi.com/\n- https://www.pulumi.com/about/\n- https://www.pulumi.com/support/new/\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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