Praveen Chitrada
Senior Engineering Manager, Akamai Technologies

Praveen Chitrada is an engineering manager at Akamai, where he leads a team responsible for designing and building the next generation of applications. Praveen and members of his technology team love using cutting-edge technologies such as Airflow, Docker, Hadoop, MuleSoft, ODI, Prometheus, Spark, and of course MemSQL. Over nearly a decade at Akamai, Praveen has applied and expanded his extensive knowledge in building complex and scalable applications. His contributions include projects to generate usage metrics for billing, track the cost of goods sold, and implement event monitoring and real-time analytics at Akamai scale. Recently, he played a pivotal role in rearchitecting the network usage statistics application to meet demanding service-level agreements (SLAs) while accommodating and leveraging ongoing, exponential growth in data volumes.