Before Akshat Bubna helped build an AI cloud, he won an international programming gold medal. The habit that connects those chapters is simple: make a hard problem smaller, then keep going.

The Extend co-founder has spent his career turning awkward paperwork into quiet infrastructure. His favorite milestone may be the moment a system can be retired.
Fastly made a business of shaving milliseconds from the web and giving developers unusual control over the edge. Its biggest outage showed the bargain hiding inside that speed - and its recovery offers a practical playbook for anyone building critical infrastructure.