Dani Barkelew
Technical Marketing Manager at VMware
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDani Barkelew is a VMware-focused technical marketing leader with nine years of experience shaping and communicating complex virtualization solutions. Currently Technical Marketing Manager for MAPBU at VMware, he blends hands-on troubleshooting and product knowledge with go-to-market strategy to accelerate adoption of enterprise virtualization. Previously, he spent eight years as a VMware Technical Support Engineer, building deep expertise in ESXi, vCenter, vSphere, storage, networking, and OpenStack integrations, and authoring knowledge-base content and training junior staff. He routinely collaborates with engineering, QA, sales, and ops to translate customer needs into practical guidance and beta feedback, while advocating for virtualization across customer engagements. Based in Denver, Colorado, he brings an engineering mindset from his Associate of Engineering studies and a track record of turning complex technical topics into accessible, actionable messaging.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Recommended Plan, Chemistry, Recommended Plan, Chemistry at McNeil High SchoolAssociate of Engineering, Physical Sciences, 3.46, Associate of Engineering, Physical Sciences, 3.46 at Austin Community College
English
Github Skills (70)
container-management10
vsphere10
customers10
harbor10
registry10
helm10
container10
ova10
container-registry10
docker10
golang9
api9
virtualization9
cosign9
cloud-native9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
dbarkelew/Playground
Aug 2019 - Aug 2022
For testing integrations with github and trying out tools.
Contributions:2 PRs, 14 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years
testingintegrations
dbarkelew/vic-product
Mar 2018 - Aug 2019
Contributions:4 PRs, 5 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 5 months
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