Akshata Damani

Chief Technology Officer at Glucobell

Milpitas, California, United States

About Akshata Damani

Akshata Damani is Chief Technology Officer at Glucobell. Location: Milpitas, California, United States.

Edge/CDN engineer with 8+ years running global HTTP(S) load balancing, multi-vendor CDN (Cloudflare, Fastly), and DNS at scale on GCP. I design and automate the systems behind reliable, fast delivery - GCLB and cross-project Application Load Balancers with Terraform, GCP Certificate Manager lifecycle automation in Python, NS1 DNS workflows, cache and compression tuning, bot management, and edge observability with Datadog and Google Cloud Logging. I build AI workflows to move faster on IaC and edge operations, Terraform, DNS, certificates, and runbooks while keeping review and change control in place. I understand how LLMs work in practice (prompting, tool use, and their limits) and set up Cursor skills and agent workflows to boost day-to-day productivity. I apply the same idea at home: a personal recipe app (Next.js + OpenAI) with an AI-assisted workflow for toddler, adult, and parent meals which includes weekly planning, meal prep guidance, smart grocery lists, photo-based scanning, and leftover recipes so you’re not starting from scratch every night. I started in ops and incident response, moved into edge/CDN engineering, and lately I’ve been working on faster/cheaper image delivery (AVIF). I care about real-world tradeoffs, not just theory. I have a master’s in Telecommunications from Northeastern and I’m currently based in the Bay Area.

Skills

  • Web Caching
  • Linux System Administration

Additional experience

  • Senior CDN/Edge Engineer

    Wayfair

    Started January 2021

Education

  • Master's Degree, Northeastern University
  • Bachelor's Degree, University of Mumbai