Priya Wadhwa
Director Of Engineering at Chainguard
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPriya Wadhwa is a Director of Engineering in San Francisco with a decade of experience building secure, cloud-native developer tooling and supply-chain infrastructure. She progressed through technical and managerial roles at Chainguard after a multi-year engineering stint at Google, combining hands-on backend and DevOps expertise with team leadership. Priya is an active open-source contributor to high-profile projects in the Sigstore ecosystem (cosign, rekor, fulcio) and supply-chain tooling (Tekton Chains, apko), where she has shipped features, CI/CD improvements, sharding tests, and security integrations. Her work shows a consistent focus on making provenance, signing, and reproducible builds more robust and operationally reliable. Collected from a Berkeley EECS background, she brings a systems-minded approach to both product architecture and on-call operational concerns. Peers would describe her as a pragmatic engineering leader who still routinely dives into refactors and build-system fixes.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (39)
kubernetes10
github-ci10
container10
docker10
code-signing10
image10
containerization10
dockers10
sharding10
cicd10
security10
occi10
go10
prometheus10
kubernetes-pods10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
tektoncd/chains
Feb 2022 - Oct 2022
Supply Chain Security in Tekton Pipelines
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:1 release, 237 reviews, 23 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Priya primarily contributed to the security and functionality of the `tektoncd/chains` repository. Their work involved enhancing authentication mechanisms for interacting with remote image registries, specifically addressing EKS and ECR integration. They also updated dependencies to the latest versions and made changes to the project's build process. Furthermore, they implemented configurations for security-focused integrations and the removal of tekton-provenance format.
tektonsecuritysupply-chainchainkubernetes
sigstore/cosign
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
Code signing and transparency for containers and binaries
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:246 reviews, 36 commits, 160 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Priya primarily contributed to the `cosign` project by implementing new features and fixing bugs related to code signing for containers. They added functionality for the `attest-blob` command, allowing for attestation of blobs, and refactored existing commands for better usability. Their work also included improvements to the CI/CD pipeline, with modifications to the test scripts, and configuration of the testing environment.
containerscryptographycosignsigningsign
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