Akamai Growth Stories | From Tech Support to Director

At Akamai, careers aren't linear — they're built one opportunity at a time. Karan joined as a Tech Support Engineer supporting web and media products. Fourteen years later, he leads as Director of the SRE team. In between: an early, inspiring meeting with Dr. Tom Leighton, a high-stakes trip to London ahead of the 2015 FIFA World Cup to solve streaming architecture challenges, and a mentor who pushed him toward people management — a shift he hadn't planned for, but one he now calls one of his...