Dagan Henderson
Principal Systems Engineer at Odyssey Systems
Rocklin, California, United States
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Top SchoolDagan Henderson is a Principal Systems Engineer and experienced platform leader with over 15 years building secure, scalable systems for compliance-heavy sectors including defense, finance, and critical infrastructure. He has led platform organizations from hands-on Kubernetes engineering to VP-level strategy, most recently overseeing resilient systems that support U.S. Department of Defense operations. Dagan blends deep cloud-native and security expertise with a pragmatic focus on accelerating delivery, modernizing legacy stacks, and meeting strict regulatory requirements. He has driven platform transformations at Everbridge, Akoya, Fidelity, and Raft, and continues to contribute to the open-source community as a self-described Kubernetes nerd and hacker. Based in Rocklin, CA, he pairs executive leadership with a builder’s mindset—often rolling up his sleeves to implement the very infrastructure and automation his teams rely on.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts - AA Liberal Arts and Sciences General Studies and Humanities, Associate of Arts - AA Liberal Arts and Sciences General Studies and Humanities at Diablo Valley College
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
raft-tech/konfirm
May 2022 - Nov 2022
Automated integration testing in your Kubernetes clusters.
Contributions:116 reviews, 29 commits, 165 PRs in 6 months
raft-tech/konfirm-inspect
Aug 2024 - Mar 2025
The official inspections library of the Konfirm project
Contributions:37 reviews, 46 PRs, 81 pushes in 7 months
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