Meet the Dagger Commanders
Once a year, we select a small group of Daggernauts to represent Dagger in other communities, build bridges between the Dagger team and all Daggernauts, and lead by example in our own community.
In “Star Trek,” the title of Commander is given to highly skilled officers who not only excel in their duties but also lead by example, guiding their crew and making critical decisions that shape the future of their missions. They are trusted leaders and advisors and strong advocates for the values of the Federation. We think this captures the spirit of this program perfectly. Dagger Commanders are not only Dagger experts: they lead, support and inspire others. They will play a pivotal role in advancing our shared goals. Just like in Star Trek, they are the backbone of our mission, and with their help we will explore many new frontiers together.
Commanders are recognized as Dagger experts and pioneers in the tech community with a special role on Discord, and gain access to exclusive events
Commanders get our iconic Commander jackets and the custom patch for each Commander batch year
Dagger supports Commanders who speak at external events, covering eligible expenses and providing other logistical support where appropriate
Commanders are integrated into the release process with the ability to provide early feedback before releases are out, and join periodic calls with the Dagger team to discuss roadmaps and provide feedback
Commanders are selected for 12 month rotations, or “batches”.
To nominate someone for the 2025 batch, fill out the form below! (Yes, you can nominate yourself)
Nipuna Perera
Director of Cloud Engineering, Fidelity Investments
What excites you most about Dagger?
"The team behind Dagger. The engineers
working on maintaining Dagger are some of the smartest and most talented folks I’ve come across. It’s very exciting to be working in OSS with such individuals."
Discord Handle: mangocrysis
Thanabodee Charoenpiriyakij
Software Engineer, LINE Company
What excites you most about Dagger?
"The first one is Terminal UI (TUI) - you can move the cursor, focus and increase/decrease verbosity to spot your problems. The second is the interactive terminal, where you can intercept your pipeline or popup the terminal to debug your pipeline. It's super useful when the pipeline has something wrong, such as misconfiguration, connection problems, etc."
Discord Handle: wingyplus
Kasper Juul Hermansen
Platform Engineer, Lunar
What excites you most about Dagger?
Programmatic pipelines and deployments on top of Docker enables a host of possibilities that have been out of reach before Dagger. Being able to treat pipelines as artifacts has enabled us to develop our pipelines into a high quality product built on strong engineering principles. I am excited for these possibilities to expand, and the community becoming more aware of the capabilities, at the same time lowering the barrier to entry for building dagger pipelines and modules.
Discord Handle: kjuulh
Márk Sági-Kazár
Cloud Native Ambassador
What excites you most about Dagger?
"For the past ten years, I've continuously researched ways to improve developer productivity and efficiency. I can honestly say that Dagger is the next step in the evolution of building and shipping software."
Discord handle: sagikazarmark
Nuno Ribeiro
DevOps Engineer, Cleva Solutions
What excites you most about Dagger?
"Running pipelines as code, and of course, no more Push and Pray!
When you have the chance to write your pipelines in your favorite programming language, it makes the pipelines more readable, easier to understand, and takes away the complexity of those messy and complex scripts. "
Discord Handle: nfr_ribeiro
Jean-Christophe Sirot
Staff Engineer, Decathlon
What excites you most about Dagger?
"For me, Dagger addresses common issues encountered when designing workflows: CI/CD pipeline development is time-consuming and complex to test. By allowing development teams to use a programming language that they are familiar with, Dagger significantly simplifies this process.
Additionally, Dagger eliminates the need for workflow description syntaxes, often in YAML and specific to each platform, by offering a multi-language and platform-independent solution."
Discord Handle: jice_
