Pat Gaughen
Engineering Manager at Chainguard
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolPat Gaughen is an experienced engineering manager with over two decades in software and a decade in senior leadership, currently leading engineering at Chainguard after a recent stint managing GCP Guest OS at Google. He has a strong track record building and scaling cloud, server, and open-source infrastructure teams at companies including InfluxData, Canonical, and IBM. Pat blends hands-on technical depth in Linux and cloud platforms with strategic leadership—running foundations, deployments, and performance organizations that bridge product and operations. Known for hiring and developing high-performing teams, he moves reliably from low-level systems details to cross-organizational program delivery. Based in Portland, Oregon, he holds a BS in Computer Science from Oregon State University and brings an institutional memory of enterprise Linux and cloud evolution that informs pragmatic engineering decisions.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Scence, Bachelor of Science Computer Scence at Oregon State University
Github Skills (68)
package-repository10
kapacitor10
chronograf10
gossip9
docker-image9
vcenter9
cloud-init9
flux9
alibabacloud8
helm8
vultr8
k8s8
docker8
upstream8
google-compute-engine8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
gaughen/docs
Aug 2019 - Aug 2019
Documentation for Docker Official Images in docker-library
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
docker-imagedockerdocker-library
gaughen/chainguard-source
Mar 2025 - Mar 2025
Fetch all sources referenced by a Chainguard Package or Image SBOM
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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