# Dathan Bennett

> Staff Software Engineer, Payments at Netflix

Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/dathan

Software engineering generalist with a broad range of experience including desktop and web application development, service development, database applications development, digital forensics, and small team and program management.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Netflix
Jan 2025 – Present | California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer, Payments @ Netflix
Jan 2019 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Advsiory Board Member, Department of Computer Science @ Sam Houston State University
Jan 2018 – Present

### Staff Software Engineer @ Udacity
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Mountain View, CA
Tech lead and manager for 5-person payments team.

### Senior Full Stack Software Engineer @ Udacity
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Mountain View, CA
Product owner and lead engineer for internal payments processing:
* Led a team building payment processing support, product catalog, and subscription management.
* Prioritized user-facing and internal feature development to maximize impact of incremental infrastructure enhancements.
* Built federated, distributed system for processing payments in locale-appropriate currencies around the world.
* Led migration from a single payment provider to supporting multiple payment processing gateways around the world.
* Improved usability of internal platform by building internal tools and client libraries and middleware for Udacity services.
* Promulgated best practices within the engineering team.
* Wrote RFCs and technical specs for new features across multiple internal services and teams.

### Forward Deployed Software Engineer @ Palantir Technologies
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015
Even though Palantir has a quick release cycle, our customers frequently have needs that need to be met in even shorter timeframes than can be accommodated by the core development staff. Or, they have needs that are too specific to their internal workflows or use cases to justify inclusion of support for them in the core product. Implementing these short-term, high-priority or very niche features is the role of a forward-deployed engineer.

Specifically, I worked on projects including:
Large (100mm+ rows) database ETL
Persistent search on a ~20TB DB growing at ~10GB/day via CEP
Federated search
Intern program management
Promotion and promulgation of SE best practices
Internal education and content development
Spring DI + IoC, Spring Servlet, Jetty, Jersey, Shiro, Swing, SAX, JAXB, Jackson, JDBC, ElasticSearch
Cryptography -- implemented hash chain-based tamper-evident logging system
Performed over 600 interviews, including composition, validation, and calibration of interview questions and strategies
Contributed extensively to build and deployment automation tooling for use by the entire company

### Programmer Analyst @ Institute for the Study of Violent Groups, Sam Houston State University
Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 | Huntsville, Texas
* Desktop and database application development, database schema design, database administration.
* C# + .NET application development
* PHP + MediaWiki development

### Adjunct Professor @ Institute for the Study of Violent Groups, Sam Houston State University
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010
Taught two undergraduate math classes for the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.

### Systems Administrator @ Institute for the Study of Violent Groups, Sam Houston State University
Jan 2006 – Jan 2008

### Adjunct Professor @ Department of Computer Science, Sam Houston State University
Jan 2008 – Jan 2009
Taught two undergraduate classes per semester for the Information Assurance minor program at the Department of Computer Science.

### Webmaster @ Criminal Justice Center, Sam Houston State University
Jan 2005 – Jan 2006
Responsible for development and maintenance of organizational websites and databases for the College of Criminal Justice and 20+ other non-profit organizations administered underneath the Criminal Justice Center at Sam Houston State University.


## Education
### MS in Digital Forensics
Sam Houston State University

### Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Mathematics
University of Houston

### Jones High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/dathan-bennett-334a301

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Last updated: 2026-04-12