Dan Lorenc is co-founder and CEO of Chainguard, a company revolutionizing how organizations build securely with open source software, shaping modern development practices for companies like Wiz, Canva, GitLab, and Snowflake.His foundational contributions to software supply chain security predate watershed moments like SolarWinds and Log4j. Before founding Chainguard, Dan spent over a decade at Google where he led several influential projects. He created Tekton and Sigstore to make containers more secure, developed Minikube, Skaffold, and Kaniko to make containers more accessible, and established SLSA as a common language for software supply chain integrity.Dan remains deeply invested in the open source community, chairing the Continuous Delivery Foundation committee at the CNCF and serving on the governing board for the OpenSSF. He holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and can be found on X at @DanLorenc.
