Hello! 👋

I'm Tony Chang

Senior Principal Site Reliability Engineer

About Me

I've spent decades making sure the internet doesn't fall over. At Akamai, I help keep the Compute Cloud running at scale, and before that I built a perimeter protection system operating at hundreds of terabits per second.

Linux CDN Distributed Systems Large Scale Systems Site Reliability Stability and Reliability Engineering Prometheus PromQL k8s

Experience

Senior Principal Site Reliability Engineer - Compute

Akamai Technologies

Oct 2025 - Present

Promoted to Senior Principal SRE in recognition of technical leadership and cross-functional influence
Influence platform roadmap through close collaboration with engineering leadership and direct engagement with strategic enterprise customers.
Mentor principal and senior engineers across SRE organization, growing team capability in reliability engineering practices

Principal Site Reliability Engineer - Compute

Akamai Technologies

Nov 2022 - Oct 2025

New role focused on improving reliability and adding scale to Compute
Led cross-functional team to evolve secure access for Akamai Compute
Served as escalation point and architectural advisor for Akamai's largest Compute customers and partners, resolving complex cross-functional platform challenges

Principal Performance Engineer - CDN

Akamai Technologies

Nov 2020 - Nov 2022

Designed and implemented a network perimeter protection system that operates at hundreds of terabits per second
Created workflows across Sales, Services, and Support to enable 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 geography
Interfaced closely with Networks leadership on capacity and strategy

But wait, there's more!

Full job history available upon request

Projects

stillpointpublic

A minimal daily wellness tracker built on habit stacking. Six micro-habits anchored to routines you already have, with cross-device sync via Supabase and magic link auth. Fully self-hostable using freely available services.

ReactViteVercelSupabase

webber2private

A from-scratch web browser engine in ~234,000 lines of Rust across 14 crates. Implements the full rendering pipeline — HTML parsing, CSS cascade, layout, painting, and JavaScript execution via V8 — with support for Flexbox, CSS Grid, transforms, animations, SVG, and tabbed browsing with DevTools.

RustV8wgpuBrowser Engine

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering

University of South Carolina - Columbia

1998 - 2002

Contact

Feel free to reach out. I'm always happy to connect.

tony@eliminated.org

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GitHub

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