Alex Caro

Alex Caro is Senior Vice President, Edge Experience at Akamai, based at the company's headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His teams are responsible for defining Akamai's next generation product and developer experiences, building the engineering platforms to support these, and documenting Akamai's capabilities to make them easy to understand for our users.

Previously, Dr. Caro was VP of Engineering for Akamai's Web Performance Business Unit. He led the group that developed products such as Ion, Image Manager, Cloudlets, and the underlying secure CDN technologies. He joined Akamai in 1999 as a Research Scientist and contributed to the development of core elements of Akamai’s Intelligent Platform. In addition, he has served in roles beyond engineering, as corporate Chief Information Officer and as CTO & VP of Professional Services for the Asia-Pacific-Japan region.

Prior to Akamai, Dr. Caro worked at several technology startups in the Boston area. He holds four degrees from MIT, including a Ph.D. in Computer Science.