Andrew Alness Email & Phone Number

I have recently left the GHost team to work on a new endeavor in hybrid CDN/P2P technology. I now work on the Akamai Client. It's everything from a basic download manager to an incredibly intelligent and effective p2p-utilizing client-side download delivery mechanism. This is really fun and exciting new work. We're one of the first teams to try to make p2p.

I work on AkamaiGHost, which is the name of our reverse HTTP/HTTPS proxy server. It would be a gross understatement to label it simply as a caching server. It runs on somewhere in the ballpark of 20,000 Linux machines world-wide. These guys handle roughly 2 million browser hits a second (in aggregate.) At any given time I think ~15-20% of web traffic goes.

Implemented really cool ideas that no one wanted to buy at the time. Most of my time was spent developing projects on my own. I implemented various streaming server proxies for RealMedia, Windows Media, and QuickTime. Worked on the back-end server for a Napster-like service. I also implemented a global traffic manager which involved implementing BGP from.

Now defunct internet service provider. It beat delivering pizza. I was responsible for keeping the network up. I had to admin some Bay Annex boxes, some USR Total Control boxes, some Bay and Cisco routers, and a few Linux machines for email, DNS, and shell service. Installed POPs in the bathrooms of various video stores, jewelery stores, abandoned.