Hello! 👋

I'm Tony Chang

Principal Site Reliability Engineer

About Me

Highly experienced technical leader with practical knowledge of stability and performance in distributed, public-facing infrastructure. Direct experience with building and growing high-volume ad delivery, streaming media, content acceleration, and cloud compute networks. Most recently working on Akamai Cloud Compute.

Linux CDN Distributed Systems Large Scale Systems Site Reliability Stability and Reliability Engineering

Experience

Principal Site Reliability Engineer - Compute

Akamai Technologies

Nov 2022 - Present
  • New role focused on improving operations and adding scale to Compute
  • Leading cross-functional team in improving operational maturity
  • Working directly with Akamai's largest Compute customers and partners to enable platform

Principal Performance Engineer - CDN

Akamai Technologies

Nov 2020 - Nov 2022
  • Designed and implemented a network perimeter protection system that was effective at hundreds of terabits per second
  • Instituted workflows across Sales, Services, and Support to support Akamai's largest network events

Manager of Reliability Engineering, Large Edge

Akamai Technologies

Oct 2017 - Nov 2020
  • New role focusing on improving the performance, stability, and reliability of Akamai’s largest networks
  • Assist in identifying and driving network-wide reliability and efficiency efforts

Team Lead - Performance Engineering, Americas

Akamai Technologies

Feb 2015 - Oct 2017
  • Designed custom solutions to support largest Media events in Americas geo
  • Interfaced closely with Networks leadership on capacity and strategy

But wait, there's more!

  • Full job history available upon request

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering

University of South Carolina - Columbia

1998 - 2002