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Dana Lawson
Chief Technology Officer (former)
2021 – 2024
3 years
Key Decisions & Impact
Oversaw global infrastructure engineering, high-availability Anycast edge network expansion, and platform security. Architected Netlify Edge Functions built on top of Deno, providing sub-millisecond compute execution at hundreds of points of presence worldwide while maintaining 99.99% service availability.
Legacy
Engineered the multi-region edge compute and caching infrastructure that allows Netlify to serve tens of billions of web requests monthly with zero origin server downtime.