# Matt Moore

> Matt Moore is the co-founder and chief technology officer of Chainguard. After work on compilers at Microsoft and container infrastructure at Google, he helped create a company that builds and continuously updates verifiable open source software. His career connects projects including Google Container Registry, distroless, Knative, Tekton, and ko with Chainguard’s software factory.

- **Role:** Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Chainguard
- **Organizations:** Chainguard, Google, VMware, Microsoft, Carnegie Mellon University
- **Education:** Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
- **Known for:** Led the creation of Google Container Registry., Created or helped shape open source container projects including distroless, kaniko, Jib and ko., Started Knative with Ville Aikas and contributed to its Tekton spin-off.

## Career timeline

- **2001–2005** — Studied computer science at Carnegie Mellon University; graduated with university honors.
- **Before 2021** — Worked on compiler optimization at Microsoft, then developer tools and container infrastructure at Google; later worked at VMware.
- **2021** — Co-founded Chainguard with Dan Lorenc, Ville Aikas, Kim Lewandowski and Scott Nichols.
- **2025** — Chainguard announced collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University’s CyLab Venture Network.
- **2026-01** — Co-authored the launch of DriftlessAF and Chainguard Factory 2.0.
- **2026-09** — Reported that Chainguard had passed one billion container build manifests.

## Achievements

- Led the creation of Google Container Registry.
- Created or helped shape open source container projects including distroless, kaniko, Jib and ko.
- Started Knative with Ville Aikas and contributed to its Tekton spin-off.
- Co-founded Chainguard in 2021 and serves as CTO.
- Helped guide Chainguard Factory 2.0 and its open source DriftlessAF framework.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Wrote that Chainguard’s factory had exceeded one billion container build manifests and 3,000 unique images.
- **2026-09** — Appeared on 1Password’s Zero-Shot Learning to discuss build identity, short-lived credentials and supply chain security.
- **2026-07** — Published an engineering article on sandboxing Chainguard’s Athena agents.
- **2026-01** — Co-authored the introduction of Chainguard Factory 2.0 and DriftlessAF.

## Links

- Website: https://www.chainguard.dev/unchained/author/matt-moore
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattmoor/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/mattomata
- GitHub: https://github.com/mattmoor
- Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mattmoor.dev

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Last updated: 2026-09-29