Wow .. has time ever flown by! It’s is now just over 6 month ago that I became a Chainguardian and let you all know with a fun public service announcement video. Joining Chainguard has been an amazing experience so far, and also a weird mixture of getting back to things I did a long time ago, continuing to use my skills and experience, working with new people and technologies, and taking on new tasks and responsibilities. Last week I joined my first company-wide meeting, and had a truly great surprise. But more about that later, let’s see what I have been up to.
I joined the DevEnablement team in the Product organization at Chainguard as Senior Principal DevRel Engineer and got right into the amazing effort around Chainguard Libraries. For the inaugural Assemble conference in April 2025 I got all the testing and documentation ready for our customers. Since then we expanded all our features and tools, added Python support, and we are excited to expand to new ecosystems really soon.
With my Trino and open source background I also updated the Trino package for our open source Linux (un)distro Wolfi and Chainguard OS, and later also helped out more on that effort. I also got involved in Kaniko. Chainguard took over maintenance of the project and we keep it alive for the user community. I interviewed Priya about the history of the project, helped with the necessary updates to the fork, and still try to chip in where I can.
On the libraries front, I hosted a learning lab about Chainguard Libraries for Java, did a bunch of internal training, and also presented and talked about it at RSA and BlackHat at the Chainguard booth. I also wrote about our Java work in This Shit is Hard: Java Archeology at a Massive Scale. The work is not done and there are still a lot of fun challenges ahead for us. In the meantime I took up more and more product management tasks for Java and JavaScript, and I am sure I will get to write a blog post or two about all that work eventually.
In the meeting last week I again had the chance to meet Linky and more of my amazing colleagues in person, learn about what everyone is working on, participate in lots of good discussions, hear about our successes and the impressive trajectory we are on, and celebrate together. In the end I was totally honoured and also surprised to receive a Linky Award for one of our core values – Customer Obsessed. The challenge is on and I am looking forward to meeting it head on and working with lots of our customers to make Chainguard and Chainguard Libraries a massive success.
The last six month have been a very positive change for my life at work and beyond. Thank you to Chainguard and all my fellow Chainguardians. Onwards to the next six and much more!