Leadership – Jeff Wabik

Jeff Wabik profile

Jeff Wabik

Chief Technology Officer

As CTO, Jeff Wabik is responsible for strategic, technical, and operational aspects across the DC BLOX business, as well as for innovation to advance the company’s Hyperscale, Connectivity, and Subsea solutions. 

For more than 38 years, Jeff has combined imagination, vision, and a deep technical acumen to create next-generation solutions for both start-up and mature organizations. Jeff’s experience includes data center and carrier network operations, embedded software development, information security, business development, the creation of L2 switching and L3 routing platforms including pioneering the world’s first multi-Gigabit router in 1993. Jeff has held senior technical management positions at Ciena, Ascend Communications, and Lucent Technologies.

Jeff graduated from the University of Minnesota with dual BA degrees in Computer Science and Geology. In his free time, he is a fitness addict, a commercial and instrument rated pilot, an avid snowboarder and plays the drums in rock-n-roll bands.