Dan Lorenc

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. He is responsible for setting the company vision, driving strategic growth, and ensuring Chainguard remains at the forefront of secure software development and deployment.

His foundational contributions to software supply chain security predate watershed moments like the SolarWinds attack and Log4j vulnerability. Before founding Chainguard, Dan spent over a decade at Google where he started projects like Minikube, Skaffold, and Kaniko to make containers easy and fun; co-founded the Tekton and Sigstore projects to make it easier to build and use containers securely, and SLSA to create a common language for software security and supply chain integrity.

Dan remains deeply invested in the open source community, chairing the Continuous Delivery Foundation committee at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and serving on the governing board for the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF). He holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and is an active voice in the open source community and on the software supply chain. He can be found on LinkedIn and X at @lorenc_dan.