About the Authors

Colin Bendell is part of Akamai’s CTO Office, where he focuses on web performance. He speaks to global audiences about images, mobile, and web development while also trying to imagine six impossible things before breakfast. Colin has a Masters degree in Business and has worked in a variety of industries, including roles in software development for real estate to managing the Infrastructure and Operations for Cameco, the worlds largest uranium mining company. He is also an accomplished entrepreneur and former owner of KelvinsWheel, an automotive wheel repair shop. His musings and writings can be found at http://bendell.ca.

Tim Kadlec (@tkadlec) is a web technology advocate pushing for a faster web at Akamai. He speaks about all things web at conferences around the world, is the author of Implementing Responsive Design: Building sites for an anywhere, everywhere web (New Riders 2012), and is co-host of The Path to Performance podcast. You can find him writing about a variety of topics at http://timkadlec.com.

Yoav Weiss has been working on mobile web performance for longer than he cares to admit. He takes image bloat on the web as a personal insult, which is why he joined the Responsive Image Community Group and implemented the various responsive images features in Blink and WebKit.

Yoav is now working at Akamai as a Principal Architect, focused on making the web platform faster by adding performance-related features to browsers, as well as working on server-side optimizations.

When he’s not writing code, Yoav is probably slapping his bass, mowing the lawn in the French countryside, or playing board games with his family.

Guy Podjarny (@guypod) is a web researcher and entrepreneur, constantly aiming to make the web faster and safer. Guy is currently cofounder at Snyk.io, focusing on securing open source code. He was previously CTO at Akamai and founder of Blaze.io (acquired by Akamai). Prior to that, Guy led dev and product for the first web app firewall and security code analyzer. Guy is a frequent conference speaker, the author of Responsive & Fast (O’Reilly 2014), and the creator of Mobitest, a mobile performance testing agent.

Nick Doyle is a software developer at Akamai on the Image Manager team, focusing on image transformations and optimizations. Previously, he worked on the Front End Optimization product with Blaze and Akamai, working on optimization development and web performance. Before Blaze, he worked with IBM on their Java Virtual Machine. When not optimizing the internet, Nick makes noise with modular synthesizers; sometimes it even sounds like music.

Mike McCall is a Product Architect at Akamai Technologies’ Web Division, focusing on the development and management of image products. Mike has experience in in-depth performance analysis of a variety of environments, ranging from large-scale distributed systems to website end-user experience. He is well-versed in writing scripts or using SQL for data analysis, and more recently using technologies like Hadoop MapReduce and HBase to dig deep into data.

Mike has previous experience in large-scale systems administration on Linux and UNIX platforms and systems administration team management.