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Mike Afergan was named Chief Technology Officer of Akamai in October 2005. He is a veteran of Akamai's distinguished engineering organization, having joined Akamai in 1999, and has served in various roles within Akamai's Engineering and Product Management departments, including Director of Technology Strategy and Director of Load Balancing and Mapping. In these leadership roles, he was instrumental in helping to drive innovation based on customer requirements working on a variety of Akamai's products and directly with many of Akamai's largest customers.
Mr. Afergan returned to graduate school in September 2003, and came back to Akamai full time after receiving his PhD in Computer Science from MIT, where his research focused on networking and distributed systems.
Prior to Akamai, Mr. Afergan ran a software consulting company for over ten years, working for a variety of companies ranging from Bose and Fidelity to start-ups. He authored several trade magazine articles and books including Java Quick Reference (Macmillan), which has been translated into six languages. He has also designed and led several technology training courses internationally.
Mr. Afergan also has a distinguished academic research career. At MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science and at Harvard, he has conducted research in the areas of networking and distributed systems. This includes the impact of economic incentives on networked systems, reliable networking and content distribution protocols, and wireless protocols and architectures. He has authored a number of academic publications on these topics and has served as a teaching fellow and guest lecturer at Harvard University.
His work has won him several industry accolades, and he is an invited speaker in a variety of industry and academic forums. | 