AI and cloud infrastructure engineering leader strengthens innovation and operational excellence as Backblaze scales its storage cloud for the AI era

Backblaze, Inc. (Nasdaq:BLZE), the high-performance cloud storage platform for the AI era, today announced the appointment of Dan Spraggins as Senior Vice President of Engineering, further strengthening the company’s executive leadership team as it continues to scale its global storage cloud.

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Dan Spraggins, Backblaze Senior Vice President of Engineering

Spraggins brings more than two decades of experience leading large-scale software, platform, and AI engineering organizations across global technology companies. In his role, he oversees Backblaze’s engineering organization, driving innovation to support the growing demands of AI and data-intensive workloads.

“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 Vice President 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.

“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.”

Spraggins comes to Backblaze having built and led engineering teams responsible for some of the industry’s most complex cloud and platform systems. In this new role, he will guide the continued evolution of the company’s storage cloud as it supports the next generation of data-driven and AI-powered applications.

About Backblaze

Backblaze (NASDAQ: BLZE) gives businesses the freedom to innovate without limits by removing the barriers of lock-in, complexity, and cost. Our high-performance cloud object storage accelerates AI workflows, powers data-heavy applications, streamlines media management, and protects critical data. As an award-winning independent cloud, we provide unparalleled levels of interoperability that enable over 500,000 of our customers to reach and serve hundreds of millions of end users in 175 countries around the world. For more information, please go to www.backblaze.com.

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“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.”