# Scott Henderson

> Scott Henderson is the co-founder and chief technology officer of Celigo, where he oversees product engineering and technology strategy. A UC Berkeley electrical engineering and computer science graduate, he left a promising pre-IPO role at NetSuite in 2006 to become Celigo's first engineer. After helping steer the business from integration consulting through SaaS and iPaaS, he is now focused on governed AI automation, including Celigo Ora and his principle of narrowly scoped, human-supervised 'atomic agents.'

- **Role:** Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder at Celigo
- **Organizations:** Celigo, NetSuite, Nextance
- **Education:** B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
- **Known for:** Became Celigo's first engineer and helped guide the company through on-premise, SaaS, iPaaS, and AI-oriented product eras., Oversees Celigo's global product engineering operations and product technology strategy., Helped develop and articulate Celigo's governed approach to AI agents, including narrowly scoped 'atomic agents' and human approval of changes.

## Career timeline

- **2003** — Began working in enterprise software, later holding engineering roles at Nextance and NetSuite.
- **2006** — Left NetSuite and joined the newly started Celigo as its first engineer, working with founder Jan Arendtsz from the company's garage-era beginning.
- **2014** — Joined the winning DAF Hackers team in NetSuite's SuiteWorld Hackathon 4Good Kiva challenge.
- **2016** — Celigo raised its first institutional capital, an $8 million growth equity round, after operating since 2006.
- **2017** — As CTO and co-founder, publicly described integrator.io as a way for users beyond IT to build, test, and deploy integrations.
- **2023** — Presented a Celigo demonstration of an AI-powered knowledge chatbot built in Slack.
- **2025** — Appeared on the Modern CTO podcast and explained his 'atomic agents' principle, his garage-era decision, and Celigo's internal rollout of AI coding tools.
- **2026** — Published Celigo's account of building Ora largely with AI agents under human review; Ora reached general availability in September after a six-month beta and more than 16,800 conversations.

## Achievements

- Became Celigo's first engineer and helped guide the company through on-premise, SaaS, iPaaS, and AI-oriented product eras.
- Oversees Celigo's global product engineering operations and product technology strategy.
- Helped develop and articulate Celigo's governed approach to AI agents, including narrowly scoped 'atomic agents' and human approval of changes.
- Was part of the winning DAF Hackers team for the Kiva challenge at SuiteWorld Hackathon 4Good in 2014.
- Led technology at Celigo as it grew from a garage-era startup into a company with hundreds of employees and customers across multiple countries.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Published 'Agents all the way down,' describing how Celigo Ora was built largely by AI agents under human direction and review.
- **2026-09** — Announced Celigo Ora's general availability and said nearly one in five Celigo users were actively using it.
- **2025-11** — Appeared on episode 893 of the Modern CTO podcast to discuss Celigo's growth, atomic agents, AI coding, and the future of software interfaces.

## Links

- Website: https://www.celigo.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/schenderson
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnM4HmvF8cs

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Last updated: 2026-09-27