Medhat Yakan
Senior Product Architect at Akamai Technologies
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMedhat Yakan is a Senior Product Architect based in Ottawa with over 9 years of recent experience and more than two decades in networking and embedded systems across Akamai, Cisco, Wind River, Nortel and Bay Networks. He blends deep hands-on expertise in Edge Computing, CDN, embedded software, wireless protocols and security with strong math and statistics to design scalable, secure product architectures. Comfortable partnering with customers and developer teams, he translates real-world use cases into pragmatic system and API designs while advocating for developer needs. Medhat is equally fluent in low-level C/C++ and modern tooling like Python, DPDK and virtualization, enabling him to bridge hardware-constrained and distributed cloud environments. Known for an interdisciplinary, “connect-the-dots” approach, he combines technical rigor with emotional intelligence and principled negotiation to drive cross-functional alignment. Outside typical architecture work he pursues emerging areas—AI/ML, IoT and autonomous systems—bringing creative, production-ready ideas to fruition.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
High School Deploma, High School Deploma at TESBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) at American University of BeirutMaster's of Science, Master's of Science at Boston University
English, Arabic
Github Skills (12)
akamai10
command-line-interface8
cli8
chat7
zulip6
linux6
javascript6
desktop5
macos5
windows5
electron4
offline-app3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mryakan/Project_Cruz
Oct 2016 - Aug 2022
Contributions:32 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 10 months
mryakan/Project_Auge
Oct 2016 - Aug 2022
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 11 months
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