Building a listed tool

Dan Spraggins

Chief Technology Officer, Backblaze, named behind the Backblaze B2 listing on Anchor Terminal.

Chief Technology Officer, Backblaze

Dan Spraggins joined Backblaze as chief technology officer in January 2026 and is responsible for its storage cloud. He was previously vice president of engineering at HP, where he led software teams on AI-driven products and platforms, and held senior engineering roles at Rackspace and CA Technologies.

What Dan builds

  • Backblaze B2 A · File storage & sharing

    Object storage at $6.95 a TB-month with the first 10 GB free, egress free up to three times what you store and $0.01 a GB after, and no charge for most API calls.

    Chief Technology Officer, Backblaze, researched 28 October 2026 · the people behind it

Works with

  • Billy Ng Co-founder, Backblaze, full stack architect until 2023
  • Brian Wilson Co-founder, Backblaze, CTO until 2022
  • Casey Jones Co-founder, Backblaze, vice president of design until 2023
  • Damon Uyeda Co-founder, Backblaze, Mac architect from 2008 to 2023
  • Gleb Budman Co-founder, CEO and chair of the board, Backblaze
  • Nilay Patel Co-founder, Backblaze, vice president of sales until 2024
  • Tim Nufire Co-founder, Backblaze, chief cloud officer until December 2022

Questions

Who is Dan Spraggins?

Dan Spraggins joined Backblaze as chief technology officer in January 2026 and is responsible for its storage cloud. He was previously vice president of engineering at HP, where he led software teams on AI-driven products and platforms, and held senior engineering roles at Rackspace and CA Technologies.

What does Backblaze make?

Anchor Terminal lists Backblaze B2 from Backblaze. Object storage at $6.95 a TB-month with the first 10 GB free, egress free up to three times what you store and $0.01 a GB after, and no charge for most API calls.

How are Dan's tools graded?

Backblaze B2 is graded A, 79.2 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

Sources (5)

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