Liz Borowsky

Liz Borowsky is the Senior Vice President of Intelligent Edge Engineering at Akamai Technologies. She and her team create and develop the rich suite of applications, products and services that augment the Akamai Platform, enabling our customers to build rich new experiences on top of our distributed network. She leads Edge Compute, Origin Services, Data Products and Platforms, and is responsible for leading innovation and strategy for bringing new technologies to market.

Prior to leading the Intelligent Edge Engineering group, Liz served as SVP of Platform Engineering, driving agility, scalability, security, and evolution of our core software stacks and technologies to support all of Akamai’s products and developers. Her responsibilities encompassed technologies from low level kernel optimizations, through our data and communications infrastructure, to global mapping and orchestration systems. This cross functional role included supporting our BU product teams with innovation as well as providing our internal developer tooling and telemetry services.

Before joining Akamai in 2006, Liz was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Boston College. She also has experience as a member of Technical Staff at HP Labs, where she did research on Distributed Storage Systems.

Throughout her career the common thread has been a focus on solving problems of optimization and coordination in distributed systems. She loves thinking about how independent parts of a system with different characteristics can be made to work efficiently together.

Liz has MS and PhD degrees in Computer Science from UCLA where she studied the theoretical underpinnings of Distributed Systems. For this groundbreaking and significant work, Liz and her PhD advisor were jointly awarded the 2017 Dijkstra Prize for Distributed Computing. She also holds a BA in Mathematics from Williams College.