Dan Troup is a Senior Consulting Solution Engineer within the AI factory team at World Wide Technology (WWT), where he helps AI-focused startups, neoclouds, and model builders design, scope, and bring to market AI factory solutions. With more than 20 years of experience designing data center technology solutions, Dan pairs deep infrastructure expertise with go-to-market strategy and service-building experience. He works with emerging neocloud teams to define the facilities, GPU cluster hardware, platform software, and services they need to mature their offerings and win enterprise customers. His focus areas include datacenter retrofit and modular build assessment, liquid cooling, data hall design, multi-tenancy platforms, and full-stack operations and security. Dan began his career at Goldman Sachs, where he spent 13 years in various roles as Vice President in global data protection and storage engineering leading R&D efforts and leading teams responsible for building and operating large scale global infrastructure. He then spent eight years at XPS and WWT as a pre-sales architect helping customers design multi-site private and hybrid cloud solutions. He also led compute, storage, security, and cloud workshops to help customers modernize from legacy environments.