Hello! 👋

I'm Tony Chang

Senior 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 platforms. Currently working on Akamai's Compute Cloud.

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

Experience

Senior Principal Site Reliability Engineer - Compute

Akamai Technologies

Oct 2025 - Present

Promoted to Senior Principal SRE - one of four in an organization of hundreds - in recognition of leadership and impact

Principal Site Reliability Engineer - Compute

Akamai Technologies

Nov 2022 - Oct 2025

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