Josh McJilton
Build the future instead of patching the past.
- Role
- Chief of Staff, Engineering at Chainguard
- Location
- Austin, TX, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Josh McJilton
People-centric leader with a passion for recruiting, hiring, coaching, and retaining top talent to excel in rapidly evolving business and economic environments. Recognized for developing innovative and engaged teams who continuously exceed expectations of PE investors, customers, and achieve personal success and professional promotions.Adept at building disciplined frameworks, processes, and teams focused on data driven decisions, creating successful business outcomes for all stakeholders. Skilled at creating predictable approaches for technology implementations and customer results.Thrives in nimble and fluid environments. Adept at navigating ambiguous situations and successfully leading geographically dispersed teams to evolve and excel through change and transitions.
Experience
Chief of Staff, Engineering
Jun 2025 — Present · Austin, TX, US
Chainguard, backed by Sequoia Capital, IVP, Redpoint, and more, builds the world\'s most extensive registry of over 1,600 open source container images. Chainguard Containers are guarded, minimal containers that have been proven to reduce CVEs for customers by ~97%.As the Chief of Staff for Engineering, I help drive the operation and continuous improvement of the teams building, delivering, and sustaining the safe source for open source. Our large and rapidly growing registry of guarded, minimal containers is just the beginning of our mission to help organizations innovate faster and more securely.
Education
Texas A&M University
BS
Skills
- Business Analysis
- Strategy
- Process Improvement
- Agile Methodologies
- Postgresql
- Kubernetes
- Pmo
- Pmp
- Leadership
- Microsoft Sql Server
- Integration
- Project Portfolio Management
- Sdlc
- Solution Architecture
- Software Development
- Python
- Requirements Gathering
- Requirements Analysis
- Cloud Computing
- Business Intelligence
- IT Strategy
- Saas
- Software Project Management
- Itil
- Business Process Improvement
- Vendor Management
- Strategic Leadership
- Business Process
- Team Leadership
- Project Management
- Mysql
- Agile Project Management
- Ubuntu
- Openstack
- Enterprise Software
- Enterprise Architecture
- Consulting
- Program Management
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