Dwayne Barstad is a Sr. Solutions Architect at Trace3 in the Greater Denver Area, with over 15 years of experience in information technology. His background spans IT support, systems administration, team management, data center design, and building customer contact centers, as well as managing multiple architecture and operations teams. He specializes in solutions design and implementation for computing hardware and software, with broad experience across storage, servers, networking, virtualization, applications, and security. Prior to Trace3, he spent eight years as a Solutions Architect at Kovarus, focusing on infrastructure solution design for a strategy- and solutions-oriented integrator/reseller.

Dwayne Barstad focuses on helping enterprises operationalize cyber resilience through well-architected Rubrik solutions. His expertise spans data center, cloud, and SaaS protection, with a strong emphasis on policy-driven management and immutability. Dwayne has guided numerous organizations through the transition away from legacy backup tools, emphasizing measurable recovery objectives and audit readiness. In one engagement, he helped a customer design a resilient architecture that improved ransomware recovery times while enhancing visibility into data risk.