Ben Dang
Sr. Software Engineering Manager at Okta
California, United States
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Top SchoolBen Dang is a software engineering manager and platform engineering leader based in California with over a decade of experience building cloud-native developer platforms and automation-first tooling. Currently leading engineering at Okta and running his own cloud consulting practice, he blends hands-on backend and DevOps experience with strategic team leadership to ship reliable, scalable systems. A longtime Habitat contributor, he has practical expertise in package plan authoring, dependency management, and build automation—reflecting his GitHub motto to "automate #allthethings." Known for turning platform complexity into developer-friendly workflows, he focuses on enabling high-velocity teams and production-ready AI-first initiatives.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
MS Electrical Engineering, MS Electrical Engineering at University of Southern CaliforniaBS Electrical Engineering, BS Electrical Engineering at University of Florida
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Github Skills (22)
dependency-management10
package-management10
scripting10
java10
javas10
script10
build-automation10
sh10
shell10
package9
packager9
package-manager-tool9
package-manager9
gnu-make7
makefile7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
habitat-sh/core-plans
Jul 2016 - Nov 2019
Core Habitat Plan definitions
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:64 commits, 77 PRs, 10 pushes in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to defining and building core Habitat plans for package management, which involves back-end development skills. Their work included adding plans for Java Runtime Environment (JRE) and tomcat-native by copying, modifying, and updating existing plans. They also worked on adding plans for various utilities, libraries, and tools, demonstrating an understanding of build processes and dependency management.
planhabitatpackage-managerdefinitionspackages
bdangit/hab-plans
Jul 2016 - Apr 2019
Habitat Plans
Contributions:10 PRs, 49 pushes, 13 branches in 2 years 9 months
habitatplans
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