Enterprise Architecture • Google Cloud • Autonomous Agentic Systems

Dan Henderson

Enterprise Cloud & AI Architect designing, governing, and delivering large-scale cloud and production Agentic AI systems.

I’m an Enterprise Cloud & AI Architect, Google Cloud Ambassador (Infrastructure), and 9× Google Cloud Certified practitioner based in the UK. I work across various sectors to design resilient multi-cloud platforms, zero-trust network boundaries, and governed multi-agent ADK architectures where security and blast-radius controls are built directly into the foundation.

Google Cloud AmbassadorEnterprise Agentic AI & Systems Governance
Architectural Publications & Deep Dives

Featured Architecture Deep Dives

Production engineering analyses covering boundary networking, ADK multi-agent blast-radius isolation, serverless vs. GKE runtimes, and enterprise AI governance.

All Publications (6)
Core Advisory & Engineering Domains

Architectural Specialization Pillars

Bridging executive strategy and principal-level engineering across four foundational enterprise domains.

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Zero-Trust Agentic RuntimesADK • A2A Protocol • Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Enterprise Agentic AI & Mesh Governance

Moving beyond fragile single-prompt wrappers to deterministic, multi-agent systems with strict cryptographic identity boundaries, zero-trust tool execution, and non-repudiable Cloud Audit trails.

  • Per-agent IAM service account isolation & blast-radius containment
  • Agent-to-Agent (A2A) & MCP control plane routing on Cloud Run & GKE
  • VPC Service Controls (VPC-SC) exfiltration prevention for autonomous runtimes
Packet & API Perimeter EnforcementPrivate Service Connect • VPC-SC • Hybrid Topologies

Boundary Networking & Zero-Trust Cloud Perimeters

Engineering non-transitive, overlap-resilient network architectures where data movement is enforced at the packet and API perimeter rather than relying on application-level intent.

  • Private Service Connect (PSC) producer/consumer service attachment design
  • VPC Peering vs. Private Services Access (PSA) failure-mode analysis
  • Split-horizon Cloud DNS & cross-project service directory automation
Empirical Performance & FinOpsCloud Run • GKE Autopilot • FinOps Guardrails

Enterprise Platform Engineering & Runtime Economics

Designing paved-road internal developer platforms and container runtimes backed by empirical cold-start benchmarking, keyless CI/CD federation, and programmatic cost ceilings.

  • Empirical workload placement: Serverless Cloud Run vs. GKE Autopilot
  • Keyless GitHub Actions / Cloud Build pipelines via Workload Identity Federation
  • Hard query byte-caps & token budget enforcement for GenAI data pipelines
9× GCP • 3× AWS CertifiedGoogle Cloud • AWS • On-Premise Foundations

Multi-Cloud & Hybrid Operating Models

Bridging executive strategy and technical delivery across regulated industries (Financial Services, Public Sector, Retail) with provider-native architectures across Google Cloud, AWS, and private hypervisors.

  • Cross-cloud identity federation & sovereign data residency controls
  • Hybrid estate integration across VMware, Nutanix, and Proxmox foundations
  • Enterprise architectural governance & executive C-suite advisory