Duan Lightfoot

Du’An Lightfoot builds and scales AI systems at Akamai. After spending a decade designing enterprise infrastructure at companies like AWS and Cisco, he now focuses strictly on agentic workflows and custom inference architecture.

He wants developers to stop renting intelligence and start owning it. His workshops break down how to run production AI agents on dedicated GPUs, optimizing deployment tools like vLLM for high concurrency and managing batching tradeoffs. He also explores how teams can build custom generative models to quickly parse internal documentation.

Before moving into tech, Du’An served in the US Air Force.