Josh Dolitsky
Staff Software Engineer at Chainguard
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Dolitsky is a Staff Software Engineer and founder with 13 years of experience building DevOps, GitOps, and CI/CD tooling to reduce friction in software delivery. He leads engineering at Chainguard while running Blood Orange, a consultancy focused on automation, containers, and developer ergonomics. A prolific open-source contributor, Josh has made notable backend contributions to high-profile projects such as sigstore/cosign and Helm, advancing container signing, OCI registry support, and SBOM workflows. He combines deep Go and systems expertise with practical DevOps work—implementing image builders, registry clients, and robust conformance tests—plus a knack for turning complex spec details into reliable build and deployment pipelines. Collected work shows a preference for pragmatic automation and security-first infrastructure that improves developer happiness and operational resilience.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Informatics, Bachelor of Science in Informatics at Indiana University Bloomington
Github Skills (47)
apim10
kubernetes10
container10
docker10
api-design10
image10
testing10
signature-verification10
command-line-interface10
bash10
cloud-infrastructure10
containerization10
dockers10
cicd10
occi10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
helm/chartmuseum
Sep 2017 - Mar 2022
helm chart repository server
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:33 releases, 75 reviews, 354 commits in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Josh primarily focused on the maintenance and improvement of the chart repository server. They upgraded dependencies, specifically Helm versions, and introduced new flags to the command-line interface. Furthermore, the user added features like support for different cloud storage services by implementing functionality to work with Oracle, Baidu and others. Their contributions also included enhancements to test environments and build processes.
helmchartskuberneteschartmuseum
chainguard-images/images
Jul 2022 - Mar 2023
Public Chainguard Images
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Software Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Software EngineerContributions:395 reviews, 575 commits, 514 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Josh Dolitsky contributed extensively to building and maintaining the `chainguard-images/images` repository. Their work included the addition and integration of numerous test scripts, focusing on image validation and functionality. Moreover, Dolitsky was involved in the creation of several example applications within various images, demonstrating an understanding of software build processes using languages like Go and C. This work included updating image configurations to match new organizational structures.
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