Dan Baskette
Head Of Technical Marketing, Tanzu Division At Broadcom
Alpharetta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolDan Baskette is a seasoned technical marketing and developer advocacy leader with 11+ years guiding product-led growth and developer engagement for Tanzu and related cloud-native products. As Head of Technical Marketing for Broadcom’s Tanzu division and former Director of Developer Relations at VMware Tanzu, he has built and scaled technical teams, launched PLG initiatives like Tanzu Community Edition, and bridged engineering, sales, and developer communities. He’s known for turning complex platform features into practical content and training—running cross-functional programs that span marketing, product engineering, and customer engineering. Dan combines deep field engineering roots (Greenplum, Hadoop, virtualization) with hands-on program delivery, giving him both technical credibility and go-to-market savvy. Based in Alpharetta, GA, he also advises a data engineering bootcamp, reflecting a commitment to developer education and talent development. An operator who thrives in deadlines and M&A-informed product strategy, he consistently strengthens trusted relationships across organizations.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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Github contributions (5)
dbbaskette/ambari-bootstrap
May 2017 - Aug 2021
Collection of tools for bootstrapping Apache Ambari & deploying clusters
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
deployingbootstrappingclustersapachecloud
Tanzu-Solutions-Engineering/phd3-hawq-aws
Nov 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:39 commits, 157 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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