Javier Garza is a developer evangelist at Akamai Technologies where he helps the largest companies on the internet run fast and secure apps by leveraging web performance, security and DevOps best practices. Javier has written many articles on HTTP/2 and web performance, and is the co-author of the O’Reilly Book “Learning HTTP/2”. In 2018, Javier spoke at more than 20 developer-related events around the world, including well-known conferences like Velocity, AWS Re:Invent, and PerfMatters. His life’s motto is: share what you learn, and learn what you don’t. In his free time he enjoys challenging workouts and volunteering for non-profits in areas like children and education.
Tim Knudsen is VP Product for Enterprise Products at Akamai. He leads the Akamai product, program management, technical marketing and business development teams responsible for enterprise security products. Tim has held various leadership positions in both start-ups and large enterprises companies delivering enterprise security, cloud networking, application acceleration, and customer experience management solutions.
Simon is passionate about web performance. He has been working in the industry for seven years in roles as diverse as professional services, software engineering and solutions engineering. He currently works at Akamai as a solutions engineer, focussed on digital performance management.
Jon Alexander manages Akamai’s Media product portfolio including their content delivery and origin services products. He is responsible for global strategy, roadmap and P&L. In this role he is focused on enabling OTT video to surpass broadcast television and bringing the next billion gamers online. Prior to this role, he managed Level 3’s global content delivery network and it’s Vyvx broadcast transmission business. Alexander also ran the product team at Velocix, managing the development of its CDN product line through to acquisition by Alcatel Lucent. Alexander relocated to Colorado from London in 2012 and holds an MA and MEng from the University of Cambridge.
Rich has been working with digital and web technology for over 15 years. His work in the performance space spans frontend, backend, infrastructure and content, led by a strong focus on data, analytics and insights. He graduated from the University of Sussex (Brighton) where he studied Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, and shortly after began his career in a user centered design team at the legal and business research company LexisNexis. This strong focus on user experience laid firm foundations for him being a passionate advocate for the end user. Originally from London UK, he now makes his home in beautiful San Francisco. Prior to relocating to California, Rich worked as Lead Architect in the Optimization team at Vodafone Group, where he was responsible for technical strategy, best practice guidelines, design reviews, and setting up a program to measure and optimize web and app performance across 21 global markets. His work led to improving web performance times by over 75% across the board. Since moving to the US he's started Optimal, a digital agency set up to help large organizations measure and improve the performance of their websites. His work is supported by a range of tools, guidelines, best practice and vendor partnerships, and he enjoys working across technical and non-technical teams to educate and foster a culture of performance. Clients include Sephora, Williams-Sonoma, Vodafone and The Hartford.
David Theobald has more than 18 years of technical architecture, web application development and consulting experience working with start-ups and Fortune 500 companies alike. As Principal Product Architect within Akamai’s Web Experience Engineering group, David is championed to design and facilitate products that solve website delivery pain-points and improve overall end user experience for our customers. As a thought leader and customer advocate within Akamai’s DevOps initiatives, David strives to unlock the promise of the programmatic Edge for all Customer Developers.
Prior to Akamai, David spent time at Accenture collaborating with clients to help them become high-performance businesses via improved technical architecture techniques and web application scalability. From there David served as Senior Technical Architect for start-up Khimetrics, a leader in providing customer demand management solutions for the retail, financial services and consumer products goods industries. Following the acquisition of Khimetrics by SAP, David most recently served as Principal Consultant leading the technical innovations and architecture team within the SAP Retail Demand Management practice.
David resides in Des Moines, Iowa, is an avid golfer, proud dad of two and University of Iowa sports fanatic.
Will Law is Chief Architect within the Media Engineering division at Akamai and a leading media delivery technologist. Involved with streaming media on the Internet for the last 18 years, he has a strong focus on client-side development and wrote many of the early connection frameworks. Currently focusing on low latency streaming, MPEG DASH, technology evaluation, UHD distribution, VR delivery, CMAF, WebRTC, cloud transcoding and multi-bitrate switching. Law is President of the DASH Industry Forum, Vice-Chairman of the CTA WAVE Project, holds Masters degrees in Aerospace Engineering and an MBA and has worked previously for Adobe, Internap and a series of five engineering and media-related startups.
Martin McKeay is an Editorial Director and Security Researcher at Akamai, having joined the company in 2011. Martin is the Senior Editor of the State of the Internet Security Report, Akamai’s report on Security, focusing on DDoS, DNS and Bots, just to name a few of the topics.
With nearly 20 year’s experience in the security space and five years of direct Payment Card Industry work, Martin has provided expertise to hundreds of companies. He has spoken at eventsall over the world including RSA, Black Hat, Defcon and FIRST. He is a member of Europol’s European Cybercrime Center Internet Advisory Committee. He frequently writes for publications such as CSO Online and IBM’s Security Intelligence blog.
The lead inventor of a patent on how to visualize the impact of ads and interactive elements on viewing behavior during video playback, Corey Halverson is Vice President of Media Product Management at Akamai. He is a veteran of several online video platform providers and regularly speaks on the use of analytics to inform and shape digital media's relationship with viewers. Halverson was part of the team that developed the QoS Monitor product at Akamai and focused especially on the methods to interpret quality impact on viewer behavior. He started his career developing algorithms and visualizations for genomic-based cancer research. Halverson holds an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management.
Mark Van Horn has over 20 years of software engineering experience, and has worked at Akamai for the past 8 years on the Luna Engineering team. Mark’s career has always focused on customer-facing web applications, from the days of cgi-bin and asp to present. He also remembers that Pine is not elm. Mark received his undergraduate degree from Cornell and his MBA from Boston College.
Barry Greene is a Principal Architect in Akamai, mentor to start-ups, and facilitator to global Internet security response to major incidents. Barry’s Operator-Centric innovations have cleared the path of Internet success by finding solutions for DDOS, network scalability, and content distribution. He has orchestrated industry-wide responses to direct threats to the Internet (Code Red, Slammer, Conficker, DCWG and much more). Barry has a passion to invest in peers, helping to build the capabilities, capacity, and deployment experience to be ready for the Internet's next wave.
Bob Strecansky works for Mailchimp, an Atlanta based digital marketing company. At Mailchimp Bob is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with a focus on Web Performance. He enjoys long discussions about caching, DNS, web performance optimization, observability, and scalability. Before Mailchimp, Bob worked at Akamai in both the digital media and ecommerce verticals. Outside of work, Bob enjoys tennis, cooking, and working on restoring old cars.
Nic is a Senior Principal Lead developer at Akamai where he leads development on Boomerang, an open-source RUM tool for collecting performance data in mPulse. He was a founding member of the W3C Web Performance Working Group where he's helping design and implement the latest performance standards. Prior to Akamai he was a developer at SOASTA and Microsoft, where he worked on Internet Explorer and Windows. Nic loves building high-performance websites, apps and open-source tools.
Kirsten Hunter is an enthusiastic developer evangelist who is dedicated to improving the developer experience for the APIs and CLIs used to work with Akamai's platform. Having worked with APIs for over a decade, she has a great deal of understanding of the frustrations and challenges customers face.
Or Katz is a security veteran, with years of experience at industry leading vendors, currently serves as Principal Security Researcher for Akamai. Katz is a frequent Speaker in security conferences and published several articles and white papers on web applications threat intelligence and defensive techniques.
Les has worked as a customer and vendor in the security, networking, and infrastructure fields for the last 20 years and is currently a Solutions Engineer at Akamai. In his work at Akamai, Les works with our customers to solve their technology and business challenges. Les’ experience spans across Akamai’s Web Experience, Cloud Security, Enterprise, and Media Delivery products. In addition to his primary work with Akamai, Les teaches web application and web security courses at Seneca College.
Tim Vereecke (@TimVereecke) loves speeding up websites and likes to understand the technical and business aspects of WebPerf since 15+ years. He is a web performance architect at Akamai and also runs the largest (and fastest) scale modeling platform on the planet.
Paul Calvano (@paulcalvano) has been helping enterprises improve the performance of their web applications for more than 15 years. As a Principal Web Performance Architect, he helps Akamai customers optimize their website and mobile performance by utilizing the Akamai platform efficiently, following industry best practices and designing solutions to help overcome technical obstacles.
Josh Shaul is a 20-year veteran of the information security industry, with deep experience in cryptographic systems and protocols, application and database security, penetration testing and incident response—in both traditional on-premises deployments and modern cloud-based systems. Shaul currently leads Akamai’s web security business, responsible for directing security products, threat research, managed security services for the firm. He is a regular Speaker at major industry events such as RSA Conference, Black Hat, bSides, Virus Bulletin, G-First, and is often leveraged by major media outlets as an expert source for commentary on security incidents.
Maya Bustan is a Senior Director of Product Management in the Web Performance Business Unit at Akamai. Maya has been at Akamai for over 6 years leading various product lines including Image Manager, API Gateway and our secure delivery (TLS) offering. Today Maya is focusing on our adjacent product offering and the Akamai DevOps initiative.
Raja Patel is Vice President, Web Performance Products at Akamai responsible for strategy and product direction for the Web Performance portfolio, inclusive of Core Delivery products, Performance Monitoring, Image manager, API gateway, & Cloudlets. Patel holds a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering with a minor in mathematics from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Arizona, and an MBA degree in global management from the University of Phoenix.
Aaron McKeown is the Head of Security Engineering and Architecture at Xero, a global online platform for small businesses and their advisors with over 1,600,000+ customers. Aaron is driving the Xero cloud security strategy and is responsible for the implementation and management of technical security on the Xero hosting platform inside Amazon Web Services. Aaron has more than 20 years experience in the architecture and management of complex solutions within the utilities and software industries.
Amol Mathur is the Director of Product Management for Akamai's Web Security BU, responsible for driving product strategy, roadmap, positioning, and innovation for the WAF product family. Prior to Akamai, Amol worked at IBM Security, Intel Security (formerly McAfee), and Foundstone (acquired by McAfee) in various Leadership and Technical roles in North America and Asia Pacific. Amol holds a Master of Science degree in Information Networking from Carnegie Mellon University and Bachelor of Technology degree in Information Technology from University of Madras.
Faraz Siddiqui is a cloud security veteran, with years of experience at industry leading vendors such as F5 Networks, Cisco Systems and Alcatel Lucent. Faraz currently serves as a Principal Solutions Engineer and Product Lead Expert on advanced enterprise solutions which enables organizations to protect the corporate assets and provide secure access to the enterprise applications hosted in any Public cloud or on-premise. Previously, Faraz served as the Principal Sales Engineer for Soha Systems Inc. (acquired by Akamai Technologies in 2016), where he was responsible for overseeing different aspects of product management and pre-sales activities. He has been a frequent speaker at various public events, published several white papers and blogs on application delivery, data center virtualization and L4-7 service insertion techniques.
John Devasia is a Product Line Director in the Cloud Security BU at Akamai Technologies one of the world’s leading providers of in the cloud DDos mitigation. John spent his initial years at Akamai helping large media customers stage some of the biggest media events on the internet. He then transitioned to roles in the security space particularly focused on building products to mitigate DNS based DDos attacks. He currently works on Akamai's Threat Product. His current interests revolve around building technology to protect information assets as more and more data flows from end users devices to the cloud services bypassing the corporate perimeter.
Eric Schreiner brings over 18 years experience designing and implementing business solutions with the last 10 years focused on enterprise SaaS applications. His expertise blends system design and integration experience with his ability to align technology delivery to business processes, workflows and results. At Akamai, Eric is responsible for the cloud-native, multi-tenant Identity Cloud platform that forms our core CIAM solution. Prior to Akamai, he worked with industry leaders in the aerospace, engineering and manufacturing industries to apply SaaS solutions to their hazardous chemical data and inventory management practices. Eric has B.A in Computer Science from the University of Oregon.
Tom brings over 20 years of technology experience (4+ at Akamai) from startups to Fortune 100 companies. He leads the Prolexic product architecture team and specializes in data, innovation and breaking stuff. He holds a degree in Computer Science from Marquette University and is a returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Benin – West Africa).
Aspen L. Sherrill is an Akamai Security Solutions Architect and the first female Security Global Product Line Expert (PLE) for the Bot Manager Premier Mobile product. She is a senior member of the award-winning Product Development & Aligned Services team (PDAS), responsible for consulting services, onboarding new Security products, pioneering the first integrations and developing processes and documentation for the rest of the company. Aspen has been recognized numerous times within Akamai as being a driving force behind the success of the Bot Manager product.
Tyler Davis is a Security Solutions Architect. He began his career in Network Engineering, before moving into Cybersecurity focusing on architecture for IoT lighting deployments. Tyler holds multiple industry certifications including a CISSP and attends Western Governor’s University. At Akamai he is a member of our Global Security Services team, where as a Bot Manager SME he defines best practices of Bot Manager Standard, Premier Web, and Premier Mobile SDK. Tyler currently supports top tier customers such as Home Depot, Nike, Michael Kors, and Hilton Hotels.
Pawan Bajaj is a product line director in the Cloud Security Solutions group at Akamai and currently leads the development effort behind the Bot Manager product offering. Pawan loves creating new products, innovating new solutions and solving customer challenges. Prior to Akamai, Pawan has led product management roles at three startups in the enterprise security and networking spaces.
15 years of Network technology, web performance and web security support and consulting background from 50+ large scale projects for Global 1000 companies as well as start-up companies. Proven ability to conceive, develop, deploy and operate complex systems and applications.
Patrick is Akamai’s Sr Director of Global Security Strategy. In his 12 years at Akamai, Patrick has held a number of leadership positions including leading the Enterprise Security Architect team. Patrick and his team work with customers when they come under attack and designs security architectures to protect them from threats. He holds a variety of security certifications including CISSP, GSLC, GCIH, and GWAPT. Prior to Akamai, Patrick held various leadership positions at DISA, AT&T, Savvis, and Cable and Wireless.
Jasyn leads the Akamai Sandbox engineering team.
Aparna Rayasam has over 20 years experience in software engineering, working on some of the most challenging technical problems in the industry. She started her career as a programmer, led design, development and delivery of many complex solutions and grew to be a technical leader in a career that has spanned across Adobe Systems, BEA Technologies and Akamai Technologies. Rayasam’s diverse leadership experience includes leading application server development, business intelligence solutions for financial systems, and most recently the development of all of Akamai’s web security products.