Cloud storage platform Backblaze Inc. has appointed Dan Spraggins as SVP of engineering, as the company scales its global storage cloud.
Spraggins has more than two decades of experience leading large-scale software, platform and AI engineering organizations across global technology companies. In his role, he’ll oversee Backblaze’s engineering organization, looking to drive innovation to support the growing demands of AI and data-intensive workloads, the company said.
“Dan’s deep expertise building and operating global-scale platforms and driving AI innovation makes him an outstanding leader for our engineering organization,” said Gleb Budman, co-founder and CEO of Backblaze. “As our customers increasingly rely on Backblaze for AI workflows and mission-critical applications, this experience will be instrumental to our continued growth.”
Prior to joining Backblaze, Spraggins served as VP of engineering at HP, where he led worldwide software engineering teams responsible for developing and operationalizing AI-driven products and platforms. Earlier in his career, he held senior engineering leadership roles at Rackspace and CA Technologies, guiding the development of distributed systems, data platforms and customer-facing technologies at scale, officials said.
“Backblaze is especially well-positioned, as the need for cloud storage infrastructure increases dramatically with the use of AI and agentic workflows in the enterprise,” said Spraggins. “I couldn’t be more excited to join the team and help advance the underlying platform for new AI use cases and verticals. Our strategy is a good one. Strong operational rigor will be key to taking advantage of the large opportunity in front of us.”
