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Sam Alba

Sam Alba

Co‑founder of Dagger; former VP Engineering at Docker

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San Francisco, California, United States
Joined November 2025

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Experienced engineering leader who scaled core infrastructure and teams: Sam was an early member of the dotCloud/Docker effort and later served as VP of Engineering at Docker, where he led and scaled engineering and core product efforts during Docker's formative years. thenewstack+1
Startup founder focused on programmable CI/CD and developer workflows: He co‑founded Dagger (YC W19), which builds a container‑native, language‑first workflow engine aimed at making CI/CD portable, cacheable, and suitable for agentic/LLM workflows. dagger+1
Open‑source and systems‑level contributor: Maintains and contributed to low‑level tooling (e.g., dockerclient, buse‑go) and other repositories demonstrating systems and container ecosystem expertise. github
Public voice on developer workflows, agentic CI, and engineering culture: Regularly speaks and writes about trusting AI agents in delivery pipelines, building reliable workflows, and scaling engineering teams; appears on podcasts and conference sessions. samalba+2

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Public speaking and podcast appearances on developer tooling, CI/CD, and startups. youtube+1