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Chainguard founder and CEO Dan Lorenc is building the security layer the entire software industry should run on. After nearly a decade at Google working on open source infrastructure, Dan co-founded Chainguard in 2021 to solve a problem hiding in plain sight. 90 to 95 percent of the code powering the world's software is open source, free, and largely unsecured. Now leading a $3.5B+ company with more than 600 customers, Dan shares his unfiltered take on where software security, AI, and the future of engineering are all headed.
What You'll Learn:
- How Chainguard is securing the open source software the world runs on
- Why the AI coding boom is making software security harder, not easier
- What the future of software engineering actually looks like
- Why CISOs can't afford to say no to AI, even when it scares them
- Whether we've already hit AGI in the software space
- How to think about your own digital security right now
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:30 Growing Up a Builder
04:22 The Origin of Chainguard
08:20 How Chainguard Works and Who It's For
13:20 How Chainguard Cleans and Secures the Code
15:20 How Dan Decides Where to Expand
17:15 The Future of Software and Software Engineers
25:30 Where Chainguard Goes From Here
26:48 Are We Already at AGI?
28:30 The Security Crisis No One Talks About
31:27 Why CISOs Can't Afford to Say No
33:25 Biggest Trade-Offs and What's Next for Chainguard
38:00 What Disappears in an AI World
39:22 What Shocked Dan Most and What Scares Him
42:30 When Security Becomes Part of Engineering
44:39 Quickfire
Follow Dan and Chainguard:
- Website: https://www.chainguard.dev/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/chainguard-dev/
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@chainguard
- X: https://x.com/chainguard_dev
- Dan’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danlorenc/
- Dan’s X: https://x.com/lorenc_dan
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