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
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Dan’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danlorenc/
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Dan Lorenc on Building Chainguard into a $3.5B Open Source Security Company