Jefferson Frazer

Director, Cloud Infrastructure | Shutterstock

Talk: Reinventing for the AI age with Fastly: A Shutterstock success story

Jefferson Frazer leads the Infrastructure and Cloud Engineering Department at Shutterstock, specializing in Edge Computing, Serverless Infrastructure and large scale Object Storage, Jefferson and the Shutterstock Infrastructure Team manage an ever growing portfolio of media content across more than a dozen brands. With a catalog of more than 120 Petabytes spanning 2000 object stores and multiple public-clouds, Jefferson has an acute appreciation for picking the right cloud resources to solve web scale business problems while remaining performant and cost effective. Jefferson lives in Flemington, NJ and can be found eating ice cream with his daughter in his free time.

Vitor Pereira

Manager SRE & Content Engineering | GIPHY

Talk: Open innovation: Building on a connected ecosystem

Vitor leads the SRE and Content Engineering teams at GIPHY, where billions of requests for animated content are served via Fastly every day. With a background in mission-critical systems, large-scale content delivery and edge computing, he knows how to keep things fast, reliable, and efficient. Vitor is passionate about simple, effective solutions that keep systems humming while keeping costs in check.

Allan Beaufour

Sr. Director of Engineering | Spotify

Talk: Supporting sustainability goals with Fastly

Allan Beaufour is Sr Director of Engineering at Spotify, leading Core Infrastructure: The backbone that delivers music, podcasts, audiobooks, and learning content to 600M+ listeners worldwide. With 20+ years in technology, Allan has built and scaled engineering organizations, driven product innovation, and guided companies through transformation. From scrappy start-ups to industry icons.

His career spans healthcare, news media, and online analytics, with executive roles at Maven Clinic, The New York Times, and Chartbeat. A native of Denmark now based in New York City, Allan is passionate about combining technical excellence with human-centered leadership.

Larry Chevres

Distinguished Engineer | CNN Digital

Talk: How CNN is transforming their business for the new media age

Larry Chevres is Distinguished Engineer for CNN Digital, where he shapes the overall technical architecture, drives strategic initiatives, and partners with technology leadership across Warner Bros. Discovery to ensure alignment, consistency, and efficiency across all digital properties.

Kevin Chung

Director - Global Secure Engineering, Architecture and Data Security | Under Armour

Talk: A look inside Under Armour’s bot strategy in the age of AI

Kevin Chung is currently the Director of Global Secure Engineering, Architecture & Data Security at Under Armour. Previously at Under Armour he established and built the DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering teams for E-Commerce. Kevin has over 20 years of experience leading innovative, award- winning engineering and design teams in various disciplines including the Media/Entertainment and Advertising industry.

Adam Dever

Director, Video Engineering | Fox Corporation

Talk: Delivering the biggest media moments in the world

Adam Dever has worked in the media industry over the last 19 years, ranging from a Engineering Solutions Architect to the current role as Director of Video Engineering at Fox. He moved into the digital streaming space back in 2012 and has mainly been focused in this area managing teams around backend infrastructure. He also is part of the SCTE Standards Committee for the industry. In his spare time he enjoys golfing, Snowboarding, and being outdoors.

Josh Woodward

Lead Software Engineer, Cloud Platform | SeatGeek

Talk: Open innovation: Building on a connected ecosystem

Josh is the Lead Engineer on the Cloud Platform team at SeatGeek, where he focuses on supporting all inbound web traffic and building seamless developer experiences. With 10 years in the industry and 7 years specializing in Platform and Developer Experience, he’s passionate about enabling engineers to be more self-sufficient, reducing friction, and removing pain points. Josh thrives on collaboration, partnering closely with teams to provide support and create smoother, more efficient workflows.

Joel Wiegman

Senior Director, Software Engineering Enablement | Abercrombie & Fitch Co.

Talk: Open innovation: Building on a connected ecosystem

Joel leads software development at Abercrombie & Fitch Co. After running his own consulting company for 12 years, he began guiding software development at Fortune 1000 companies in 2010. His work spans commerce sites, call centers, merchandising, order management, tax systems, POS, content delivery, analytics, integration platforms, Kubernetes, and mobile apps. Joel loves his work, rarely recognizes Thanksgiving as a holiday, and has built a reputation for rescuing large companies from poorly implemented packaged software.

Greg Speranza

Cyber Security Engineer | JetBlue

Talk: How JetBlue transformed application security with a developer-first approach

Greg specializes in securing cloud-native applications and web infrastructure at scale. He specializes in building intelligent logging and analytics pipelines that surface real-time insights and enable proactive security across modern edge environments. Greg has been instrumental in JetBlue’s adoption of Fastly, implementing creative defenses, integrating security into developer workflows, and championing a more agile, developer-friendly approach. Passionate about bridging data and security, he makes tooling both powerful and approachable for the teams who use it. Outside of work, Greg is a multi-instrumentalist and lifelong lover of music and film, channeling that same creativity into his craft.

Paul Calvano

Performance Architect | Etsy

Talk: How Etsy drives continuous performance gains through a culture of experimentation

Paul is a Performance Architect at Etsy, where he helps optimize the performance of their marketplace. Prior to that he worked as a web performance consultant, helping websites optimize their performance since as early as 2000. Paul is a co-maintainer of the HTTP Archive, an open source project that has been tracking the evolution of the web since 2010. He’s an author of various chapters of the 2019 Web Almanac and also a co-organizer of the NY Web Performance Meetup group. He writes about web performance and shares HTTP archive research at paulcalvano.com.

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Artur Bergman

Founder and CTO | Fastly

Talk: AI at the edge

Artur Bergman is the Chief Technology Officer and Founder at Fastly. Since co-founding Fastly in 2011, Artur has helped shepherd the company’s evolution in a variety of roles including Chief Executive Officer, Chief Architect, and Chairperson of the Board of Directors.

Prior to co-founding Fastly, Artur held a number of leadership and management roles, including Chief Technology Officer of Wikia, Inc., a global community knowledge-sharing platform, Engineering Manager for SixApart Ltd., a social networking service, and Fotango, Ltd., a subsidiary of Canon Europe.

Kip Compton

CEO | Fastly

Talk: How CNN is transforming their business for the new media age

Kip Compton is the Chief Executive Officer of Fastly. Appointed in June 2025, Kip brings more than 25 years of senior leadership experience driving innovation in cloud, video, and networking, along with a proven track record of bringing world-class technology to market and growing significant businesses to Fastly. Kip previously served as Fastly’s Chief Product Officer, where he was instrumental in accelerating Fastly’s portfolio strategy, engaging with customers and investors, and driving growth across the business. Prior to joining Fastly, Kip served as the senior vice president of strategy of the Cisco Networking business at Cisco where he led teams responsible for strategy, portfolio management, investments and acquisitions. Kip holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering and Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also holds a Master of Business Administration from the Wharton school.

Randy Reddig

Interim Chief Product Officer | Fastly

Talk: A platform for innovation: What we’ve been building at Fastly

Randy Reddig is the interim Chief Product Officer of Fastly. He is responsible for driving Fastly’s platform strategy and delivering continuous innovation to solve our customers' most important business challenges. Randy previously served as Vice President, Technology Research and Incubation. Under Randy’s leadership, the company launched new products like Fastly AI Accelerator in record time, and pursued initiatives to reach new and existing customers at scale. Randy joined Fastly in 2023 with the acquisition of Domainr, which he cofounded in 2008. Prior to Fastly, Randy has served as a CEO, entrepreneur, investor, and advisor to early-stage technology companies, including Square (now Block, Inc), as a member of the founding team. Randy launched his career as a game developer, contributing to games from Id Software, Bungie, Activision, and EA, and cut his teeth in Silicon Valley developing search technology at AltaVista. Based in San Francisco, Randy and his family maintain a close connection to New Zealand. As an Edmund Hillary Fellow and a member of the board of directors of Endeavor New Zealand, Randy helps support high-impact entrepreneurs in the region.

Kelly Shortridge

VP of Product Management, Security | Fastly

Talk: A platform for innovation: What we’ve been building at Fastly

Kelly Shortridge is VP of Product Management for Fastly's Security business and the author of "Security Chaos Engineering: Sustaining Resilience in Software and Systems" (O'Reilly Media). Best known as a cybersecurity and resilience expert, Shortridge is a frequent industry commentator (BBC News, Business Insider, the Wall Street Journal), keynote speaker at international technology conferences, and published researcher (ACM, HICSS, IEEE, and USENIX).

Hossein Lotfi

VP of Engineering | Fastly

Talk: Preparing for the unexpected: Fastly’s seven pillars of network resilience

Hossein Lotfi is the VP of Engineering leading Edge Systems Organization at Fastly. Hossein has over 20 years of experience building networks and large-scale systems ranging from startups to hyper-scale cloud infrastructure. He has scaled multiple engineering organizations geared towards rapid development and novel innovations.

He firmly believes in the compounding effect of having experts in every part of the stack working together to build innovative solutions for intricate scalability and efficiency challenges. Hossein’s engineering leadership style is rooted in deep involvement with the state of production systems. At Fastly, Hossein is responsible for building reliable, cost-effective, and low-latency systems at the edge that deliver network services to our customers. He oversees the following engineering groups: Traffic Engineering (Egress and Ingress), Edge Delivery Platform (Varnish, CacheD), Kernel and DataPath (XDP), Edge Protocols (e.g. TLS, QUIC), Layer 7 load balancing (H2O), Hardware Engineering and Network Architecture.

Nick Rockwell

Executive VP, Strategy & Operations | Fastly

Talk: Supporting sustainability goals with Fastly

Nick Rockwell is the Executive Vice President of Strategy and Operations at Fastly, with twenty years of experience in product development and information security at top media publishing companies.

Previously, Nick served as Chief Technology Officer at The New York Times, overseeing product engineering, infrastructure and research and development. At the Times, Nick led the company’s digital transformation through a massive re-architecture of its website and other product offerings. He helped transition The Times to a truly modern, digital media company.

Prior to the Times, Nick was Chief Technology Officer of Conde Nast, where he oversaw all aspects of Conde Nast’s technology development and operations, including web and mobile engineering across Conde Nast’s portfolio of brands. He was previously CTO at The Ladders, Digital CTO at MTV Networks, and the technical founder of SonicNet, a groundbreaking music editorial startup.

Throughout his career, Nick has worked at the intersection of media and the Internet, building digital products at scale. Nick graduated from Yale University with a B.A in Literary Theory and later learned to code on the mean streets of Silicon Alley. Along the way he did time in several bands, playing shows at CBGB's and other clubs around the Lower East Side.

Jamie Sherry

Staff Product Manager | Fastly

Talk: Delivering the biggest media moments in the world

Jamie is a Staff Product Manager, focused on ensuring the highest satisfaction and success for the top global media brands at Fastly. Before joining Fastly, he worked at Wowza Media Systems, Akamai, and Lumen, and has over 14 years of experience specializing in streaming and digital media, telecom, and network services. When not working, Jamie enjoys spending time with family, skiing, trail running, surfing, traveling, and more.

Jesse Von Doom

Director of Product Management | Fastly

Talk: Reinventing for the AI age with Fastly: A Shutterstock success story

Jesse von Doom is Director of Product Management for Compute. He joined Fastly as part of Glitch, and prior to that was Digital Director of the Mozilla Foundation, a fellow with the Shuttleworth Foundation, and Executive Director of CASH Music. He likes rainbows a lot.

Laura Thomson

SVP of Engineering | Fastly

Talk: Open innovation: Building on a connected ecosystem

Laura Thomson is the Senior Vice President of Engineering at Fastly.

Prior to Fastly, Laura held a variety of engineering leadership roles at Mozilla and has worked as a software engineer, company founder, consultant, and computer science academic. Laura is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society, where she currently serves as Treasurer. She previously served on the board of Internet Security Research Group (ISRG), the nonprofit that operates Let’s Encrypt.

Laura is a best-selling author who has written several books on various open source technologies, including “PHP and MySQL Web Development” (with Luke Welling). She has contributed to many open source projects, and spoken at dozens of conferences worldwide on a variety of technology topics.

Laura holds a Bachelor of Engineering and a Bachelor of Applied Science from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.

Brooks Cunningham

Staff Enterprise Architect | Fastly

Talk: A look inside Under Armour’s bot strategy in the age of AI

As a Staff Enterprise Security Architect at Fastly, Brooks focuses on helping customers deliver performant and secure experiences to their end users. For years, he has had first-hand operational experience managing team members who were responsible for deploying and managing systems designed to combat online fraud and abuse. Brooks continues to advocate for creative solutions to mitigate online attacks such as account takeover, gift card stuffing, and inventory denial of service. He is a proud graduate of Tulane University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Management.

Daniel Corbett

Principal Product Technology Manager | Fastly

Talk: How JetBlue transformed application security with a developer-first approach

Daniel Corbett is a Principal Product Technology Manager on the Security Product team, where he works on the Signals and Rules that power Fastly's Next-Gen WAF. He has over 15 years of security practitioner experience and has previously worked at a high-traffic managed hosting provider where he was architecting and building secure infrastructure, mitigating threats and attacks of varying degrees, and performing incident response. Daniel is a passionate teacher and mentor who enjoys helping others. When he's not working you can find him spending time with his family, working on home improvement projects, or trying to duplicate meals from his favorite restaurants.

Steve Stierer

Sr. Director of Sales Engineering | Fastly

Talk: How Etsy drives continuous performance gains through a culture of experimentation

Stephen Stierer is the Senior Director of Pre-Sales for North America at Fastly, a role in which he leverages over two decades of pre-sales leadership experience. His expertise spans a variety of critical sectors, including Cloud Security, Internet Infrastructure, eCommerce, and Enterprise. Stephen specializes in the go-to-market strategy and execution of cutting-edge products, with a particular focus on Cloud Security, Web Performance, and Analytics. He possesses a deep technical understanding of internet technologies, including Application Security (AppSec), DDoS, DNS, and Bot Management. Stephen is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

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