Daniel Spinner
About Daniel Spinner
Daniel Spinner is the Manager of AWS Product Operations at Barracuda, with extensive experience in service delivery, systems engineering, and customer support.
Title and Current Position
Daniel Spinner is currently employed as the Manager of AWS Product Operations at Barracuda. He works remotely in this role, overseeing the operations connected to AWS products within the company.
Previous Experience in Technology Operations
Daniel Spinner has an extensive background in technology operations. He previously worked at Sonian as a Service Delivery Operations specialist for seven years, from 2011 to 2018. Before that, he was a Systems Engineer at Xecuritas for two years, from 2009 to 2011. His early experience includes roles such as Product Specialist and Support Engineer at Infocrossing, a Wipro company, Technical Support at IntelliReach Corporation, and Customer Support roles at Level3 and Genuity.
Education and Academic Background
Daniel Spinner completed his Bachelor of Arts at the University at Albany, SUNY, where he studied Geography, GIS, Sociology, and earned his degree. He attended the university from 1996 to 1999.
Projects and Technical Initiatives
Daniel Spinner has led several major technical initiatives. He engineered migration orchestration tools and a migration status tracking database, enabling the successful transfer of over 5 petabytes of customer data from 23 different stacks into five production stacks over 1.5 years. He also designed and executed a cloud migration from IBM Softlayer Cloud to AWS, which resulted in higher SLAs and a 20% reduction in spend. Additionally, he led efforts to update the technology stack onto Kubernetes to improve innovation and enable teams to be more self-sufficient.