The New Stack Makers

Ask a developer about how they got into programming, and you learn so much about them. In this week's episode of The New Stack Makers, Chainguard founder Dan Lorenc said he got into programming halfway through college while studying mechanical engineering. "I got into programming because we had to do simulations and stuff in MATLAB," Lorenc said. And then I switched over to Python because it was similar. And we didn't need those licenses or whatever that we needed. And then I was like, Oh, this is much faster than you know, ordering parts and going to the machine shop and reserving time, so I got into it that way." It was three or four years ago that Lorenc got into the field of open source security. "Open source security and supply chain security weren't buzzwords back then," Lorenc said. "Nobody was talking about it. And I kind of got paranoid about it." Lorenc worked on the Minikube open source project at Google where he first saw how insecure it could be to work on open source projects. In the interview,