Summary
Van Phan is a Technical Product Marketing Manager with over 18 years in IT, combining deep storage expertise with cross-functional leadership across product, engineering, and sales. He has driven technical marketing and go-to-market strategy for cloud-native storage solutions—most recently shaping messaging and enablement for HashiCorp and previously leading the technical marketing team for Pure Storage’s Cloud Block Store on AWS and Azure. Van pairs hands-on subject matter depth in enterprise storage (replication, QoS, encryption, snapshots) with practical experience translating complex architectures into sales-ready collateral and field enablement. Based in San Jose, he is known for leading by example, strong analytical problem solving, and a pragmatic focus on removing barriers for customers adopting hybrid and multi-cloud data strategies. An electrical engineering graduate from UC Davis, he brings both low-level systems understanding and broad product intuition to bridge technical and commercial outcomes.
4 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BSEE, Electrical Engineering, BSEE, Electrical Engineering at University of California, Davis