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Igor Lubashev,

Director of Engineering, Akamai Technologies.

Abstract: 

Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) have evolved from simple caching systems into critical infrastructure powering today’s Internet. This talk highlights how CDNs improve performance, scalability, and security through caching, overlay routing, and transport optimizations, while also enabling media management, site acceleration, and global content protection. We will also discuss CDN architectures and the different design decisions that distinguish them.

Bio: 

Igor Lubashev is a Director of Engineering at Akamai Technologies, where he leads teams focused on Linux kernel and operating systems, load balancing, and Edge Virtualization systems. He has played a key role in launching Akamai’s anycast CDN and Distributed Linode cloud products.

Active in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Igor has contributed to the development of the QUIC protocol, innovative loss measurement techniques in QUIC, and advancements in source address validation. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, including IETF and Networking at Scale, where he shares insights on networking, performance, and systems architecture.

Prior to Akamai, Igor worked at Oracle, contributing to the low-level architecture of the Oracle RDBMS. He also played a pivotal role at a startup developing a mobile operating system. A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Igor has a deep technical background in networking and distributed systems.