Dan Lorenc

CEO

New York City, New York, United States18 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

CEO and co-founder of Chainguard.
Nearly a decade of engineering experience at Google.
Contributed to multiple popular open source projects.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Software Supply Chain Security expert with extensive experience in open source and developer infrastructure.

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Software DevelopmentSoftware DesignDisaster RecoveryDatabase AdministrationDatabase DesignWeb DevelopmentC#C++CSolidworksVisual StudioSQL Server.NETiPhone developmentAndroid

About

I'm currently the CEO and co-founder of Chainguard, a company focused on improving software supply chain security. Before that, I was an engineer at Google for close to a decade, where I worked on developer infrastructure, tooling, and open source. I helped start and maintain many popular open source projects like Minikube, Skaffold, Distroless, Tekton, Sigstore, and SLSA.

Experience

18 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 8 mos

Current Experience

Gastown

Assistant to the Mayor

Jan 2026 – Jan 2026 · 0 mo · Gastown

Assist the Mayor, Witness, and Deacon. Sling work to the Polecats and generally keep things flowing through the Refinery.

Chainguard, inc

Founder/CEO

Oct 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 8 mos

Stealth startup

Founder

Oct 2021 – Oct 2021 · 0 mo

Google

Software Engineer

Dec 2012 – Oct 2021 · 8 yrs 10 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Working on the infrastructure behind the Google Cloud Platform.

Disqus

Software Engineer

Apr 2012 – Dec 2012 · 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Designed, implemented and launched Promoted Discovery, an advertisement network currently handling hundreds of millions of impressions a day.

Microsoft

Software Development Engineer

Feb 2010 – Aug 2012 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Bellevue, WA

I'm a software development engineer working on Dynamics CRM Online.

Intuit

Software Development Engineering Intern

May 2009 – Aug 2009 · 3 mos

I'm a software engineer working on Quickbase in Waltham, MA.

Mit

Engineering Intern

May 2008 – May 2009 · 1 yr

I work in the Mechanical Engineering Department. I design and build lots of things like buoys that generate electricity from waves and inexpensive 3D-printers.