Summary
Sarah Edwards is a Principal Architect with 15 years of experience designing and scaling operational tooling and deployment systems, currently leading architecture for a 30+ engineer team at Akamai. She specializes in automating manual operations with a strong emphasis on safety and low-touch, highly reliable change processes, work that earned her Akamai’s 2024 Danny Lewin Award. Her background spans research-grade infrastructure and experimentation at BBN/GENI to production software deployment, giving her a rare blend of systems research and large-scale operational experience. Based in Cambridge, MA, she combines hands-on technical leadership with community service as Secretary for the League of Women Voters of Boston, reflecting a commitment to civic engagement alongside engineering rigor.
15 years of coding experience
University of California, San Diego
BSEE, Electrical Engineering, BSEE, Electrical Engineering at Rice University