Devashish Thakur
Senior CDN Site Reliability Engineer at Netflix
Belmont, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDevashish Thakur is a Senior CDN Site Reliability Engineer with over 11 years optimizing media streaming and web traffic performance, currently focused on CDN reliability at Netflix after a long tenure at Akamai. He specializes in reducing rebuffering and startup times for video, improving core web vitals like TTFB and LCP for HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, and translating client- and server-side diagnostics into engineering and architectural fixes. At Akamai he led performance working groups, built monitoring and diagnostic tooling, managed incident response, and mentored new hires—balancing high-impact, measurable improvements with operational readiness. Based in Belmont, MA, he pairs deep protocol and CDN expertise with full-stack experience dating back to early web and J2ME mobile work, which gives him a practical edge in tracing performance issues end-to-end.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BE Computer Science, BE Computer Science at PES Institue of TechnologySaint XaviersMaster of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at Stony Brook University
English
Github Skills (15)
dashboard9
monitoring9
prometheus8
grafana8
visualization8
data-visualization8
elasticsearch8
mysql8
analytics8
visualize8
influxdb7
composable7
go7
business-intelligence6
observability5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
dethakur/Job-Salary-Prediction
Apr 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:9 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
dethakur/OperatingSystem
May 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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