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Harald Prokop is Senior Vice President of Engineering at Akamai. Mr. Prokop manages the Company's engineering efforts and is responsible for building the services that run on Akamai's globally distributed computing platform. He also helps to define and is responsible for executing Akamai's technology strategy with a focus on innovative, market-leading services based on customer requirements.
Mr. Prokop joined Akamai in 1999 as one of Akamai's first engineers and has held various leadership roles within Akamai's Engineering department. Mr. Prokop is one of the architects of Akamai's proprietary system for Internet performance measurement and traffic management, a key component of the Company's services. He designed the development and testing process that brings Akamai services to market.
Prior to Akamai, Mr. Prokop was working on high-performance and parallel computing at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science. His Master's thesis, "Cache-Oblivious Algorithms," has resulted in an active new research branch of algorithm theory that includes the efficient use of memory hierarchies.
Mr. Prokop has also received numerous awards during his career. In 2004, he received Akamai's highest employee recognition, the Daniel Lewin Award, for his outstanding technical contributions to the company. In 1996, Mr. Prokop received a fellowship award from Cusanuswerk, Germany. In 1994, Mr. Prokop was one of the winners of the Bundeswettbewerb Informatik, an annual computer science contest sponsored by the federal government in Germany that attracted thousands of student entrants.
Mr. Prokop received a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, and an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from the Universität Karlstruhe in Germany. He has been published in the fields of Internet computing and computer science.
Harald Prokop is Senior Vice President of Engineering at Akamai. Mr. Prokop manages the Company's engineering efforts and is responsible for building the services that run on Akamai's globally distributed computing platform. He also helps to define and is responsible for executing Akamai's technology strategy with a focus on innovative, market-leading services based on customer requirements. | 