Summary
Dave Wakeman is a Principal Technical Sales Manager at IBM with a multi-decade career bridging hands-on engineering and client-facing technical leadership. He brings deep expertise in integration, application architecture, blockchain, business process design, and DevOps across multi-cloud environments. Having progressed through roles from IT Specialist to Principal Technology Engineer and Senior Cloud Engineer, he combines practical engineering experience with the ability to translate technical value for customers. Based in Iowa, he leverages an unusually long tenure inside IBM to navigate complex enterprise deployments and sales cycles. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture decisions that balance innovation with operational realities.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
University of Northern Iowa