Cloud infrastructure
10 CoreWeave operations leaders
These ten current and former CoreWeave operations leaders have held director, senior director, vice president and chief operating officer roles covering data center operations, facilities engineering, mission critical operations and capacity delivery at CoreWeave. A reader can learn how operations leaders work at CoreWeave from people who have held the role.
Professionals to explore
01—10Aaron Hobart
LinkedInExperience: Director of Facilities Engineering · CoreWeave
Director of Facilities Engineering at CoreWeave since June 2024, based in New Jersey. He was previously a global reliability engineer at CBRE and an engineer in global data center operations at IBM, and earlier was Director of Corporate Engineering & Energy at NBCUniversal.
Anthony Scannelli
LinkedInExperience: Vice President of AI Data Center Development (Dirt to blinky lights & day 1 Ops) at CoreWeave · CoreWeave
Vice President of AI Data Center Development at CoreWeave since December 2025, a role covering sites from groundbreaking through day one operations. His profile describes setting sites up for success into operations. He previously led AI data center development and construction at American Real Estate Partners and worked at Schneider Electric.
Devon Deis
LinkedInExperience: Regional Director - U.S. West Data Center Operations · CoreWeave
Regional Director for U.S. West Data Center Operations at CoreWeave since January 2026, based in Washington state, after serving as a data center site operations manager at Microsoft and as director of data center engineering and operations at Broadcom and VMware.
Gavin Murray
LinkedInExperience: Director of Data Centre Operations - Europe · CoreWeave
Director of Data Centre Operations for Europe at CoreWeave since July 2024, based in London, with his profile describing support for CoreWeave's expansion into Europe. He was previously Director of Engineering & Operations at Rackspace Technology for over a decade and an operations director at Easynet Group.
Gonzalo Herrera
LinkedInExperience: Sr. Director Data Center Capacity and Delivery · CoreWeave
Sr. Director Data Center Capacity and Delivery at CoreWeave since January 2026, after serving as Director, Data Center Capacity and Delivery from February 2023. His profile cites over 25 years in IT operations and infrastructure; he earlier led core services at Intuit and was Senior Director, Site Operations at Shutterfly.
Joseph Gonzales
LinkedInExperience: Mission Critical Operations Director · CoreWeave
Mission Critical Operations Director at CoreWeave since April 2026, with his profile describing oversight of physical infrastructure operations for high reliability and continuous uptime across mission critical environments. He was previously Sr. Director and Director of Manufacturing Operations at Intel.
Kyle Hribar
LinkedInExperience: Director, Data Center Delivery · CoreWeave
Director, Data Center Delivery at CoreWeave since July 2026, a director-level operations role based in New Jersey. He was earlier Data Center Delivery Manager (2024–2026) and Data Center Systems Engineer (2023–2024) at CoreWeave, and also held systems administration and break-fix technician roles at WC Health Group and Apple.
Michael Terlizzi
LinkedInExperience: SVP, Data Center Operations · CoreWeave
SVP, Data Center Operations at CoreWeave since March 2024. His profile describes leading site selection to scale the mission critical footprint globally, designing and constructing purpose-built data centers, and managing deployment of network, storage and compute. He was earlier EVP, Platform Delivery for engineering and construction at Digital Realty.
Richard DeFalco
LinkedInExperience: VP of Operations at CoreWeave · CoreWeave
Former VP of Operations at CoreWeave (March 2024 to March 2026), after serving as Senior Director of Operations and, from December 2017, Director of Operations at CoreWeave in New Jersey. Before CoreWeave he spent three decades as a senior field service engineer at Philips.
Sachin Jain
LinkedInExperience: Chief Operating Officer · CoreWeave
Chief Operating Officer at CoreWeave since January 2024, based in Seattle. He was previously Senior Vice President for AI infrastructure and product management at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, a vice president at Google Cloud, and held vice president roles at Amazon covering selling partner experience and retail systems.
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Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How does a GPU cloud provider bring new data center capacity online quickly?
- 02How are data center operations organized across regions as the footprint grows?
- 03How is uptime maintained across mission critical facilities running AI workloads?
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