Chainguard

We are Chainguard, founded in 2021 as a computer and network security company specializing in software supply chain security, cybersecurity, container images, and software development. We provide secure, production-ready builds of open source software.

Our offerings include open source software for various layers of the software stack:

• Chainguard Containers: Minimal, customizable, zero-CVE container images with an SLA for CVE remediation.
• Chainguard Libraries: A catalog of malware-resistant language libraries designed to protect against supply chain attacks.
• Chainguard VMs: Minimal, zero-CVE VM images optimized for cloud environments and used as container hosts.

These products are powered by Chainguard OS, a Linux distribution with nano-level updates, and Chainguard Factory, a bot-powered software factory that assembles, hardens, and distributes secure software daily. Our customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and other leading companies like Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Snap Inc., and Snowflake.

We have saved customers 340,000 engineering hours and remediated over 85,000 CVEs. Our catalog includes over 1,800 containers (600+ FIPS containers). Customers have seen an 80% reduction in attack surface and a 97.6% average reduction in CVEs.

Our mission at Chainguard is to be the safe source for open source software, enabling engineering teams to innovate quickly and confidently in their code’s security. We believe that speed, security, and scalability in building with open source can be achieved simultaneously. Our values guide our culture and operations:

• Customer obsessed: We focus on improving our customers’ lives and securing their software supply chains.
• Bias for intentional action: We prioritize, plan, test, learn, and grow.
• Doing serious work without taking ourselves too seriously: We approach our mission with seriousness but maintain a playful attitude.
• Trust each other and assume good intentions: We foster a supportive, collaborative, and positive team environment.

Chainguard has 201-500 employees. Our company was founded in 2021 by Dan Lorenc, Kim Lewandowski, Matt Moore, and Ville Aikas, who have backgrounds in foundational open source projects like Kubernetes, Sigstore, and Distroless. Our executive team includes Dan Lorenc (CEO & Co-Founder), Ville Aikas (Distinguished Engineer & Co-Founder), Kim Lewandowski (CSO & Co-Founder), Matt Moore (CTO & Co-Founder), Ryan Carlson (President), Eyal Bar (CFO), Quincy Castro (CISO), Liz Egan (CMO), Parm Uppal (CRO), Patrick Donahue (SVP of Product), Dustin Kirkland (SVP of Engineering), Grace Shiell (VP of People), and Lindsey Krieger (VP, General Counsel).

We foster a remote-first, people-centric culture, encouraging connection through team meetups and bi-annual destination summits. Employees receive a monthly stipend for coworking spaces. We emphasize high performance driven by our values, and we encourage making an impact and addressing challenging problems. We’re proud to be recognized as a ‘Fortune Best Workplaces for Women’, a ‘Fortune Cyber 60’, ‘Great Place to Work CERTIFIED’, a ‘FORBES Cloud 100’, and one of ‘FORTUNE BEST WORKPLACES IN TECHNOLOGY’.

We offer a remote-first culture with opportunities for team meetups and bi-annual destination summits. We provide a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone, and internet costs. We cover 100% of health, vision, and dental insurance premiums for employees and their dependents.

Our parental leave includes 18 weeks paid for birthing parents and 12 weeks paid for non-birthing parents, with flexible usage throughout the child’s first year. Employees also receive flexible time off. We offer equity through stock options upon hire and promotion, with participation in secondary offerings and a 10-year exercise window.

Additional benefits include a $300 monthly wellness perk, $18,000 in lifetime family planning support (for adoption, IVF, egg freezing, or surrogacy), a $1,500 annual professional development budget, and a one-time $1,750 home office setup budget.