Prasanna Laghate

Prasanna Laghate is a seasoned technology executive with over two decades of experience at Akamai Technologies, where Prasanna has held multiple leadership roles including Vice President of Cloud Technology Engineering and Vice President of Edge Platform & Products Engineering, overseeing significant areas such as CDN Engineering and infrastructure for high-revenue products. With a background in engineering management, Prasanna has also contributed to strategic product development and integration efforts, exemplified by driving the acquisition of Octoshape. Prasanna's educational credentials include an Executive Education program at Columbia Business School and advanced degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Southern California and Savitribai Phule Pune University, respectively. Additionally, Prasanna served on the Technical Advisory Board of Lilac Cloud prior to its acquisition by F5.