Dan Baskette

Dan Baskette is an accomplished technology professional currently serving as the Head of Technical Marketing for the Tanzu Division at Broadcom since May 2024 and an Advisor at Data Stack Academy since December 2021. Previously, Dan held several leadership roles at VMware Tanzu, including Director of Developer Relations from January 2020 to May 2024, where a team of 25 was directed to enhance Tanzu's profile in the developer community. Prior to this, Dan worked at Pivotal Software, Inc. from February 2014 to January 2020 as Director of Technical Marketing and Principal Field Engineer, contributing to product advocacy and community engineering. Dan's earlier experience includes various technical and consulting roles at EMC and Sun Microsystems, starting from 2000, which encompassed product development and customer solution design. Dan holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.