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Mr.
Jan Theodore Galkowski is an engineer with Akamai
Technologies in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Akamai guarantees
high-performance delivery of Web content, rich media, software, and
applications across the Internet. Akamai's servers carry 40%
of
all the Internet's content. Organizations like Apple, AUDI AG, IBM,
MySpace, Charles Schwab, CBS, BBC, Abercrombie & Fitch, Cognos,
and NASA trust Akamai to accelerate their content and
business
processes online.
As Senior Software Engineer, Mr.
Galkowski works in Akamai's Custom Engineering division in Cambridge
Center, devising numerical algorithms, models, and fast software for
analysis of high volumes of Web traffic, producing engineering and
business insights for Akamai's customers.
He lives
in Cambridge
with his wife, Helen, and is into sailing, the physics of sailboats,
robot controls and principles, comparative biomechanics, pirate lore,
and teaching and mentoring maths and mathematical applications.
Previously,
Mr. Galkowski was a
database and Web services developer specializing in MySQL, Python, PHP,
and higher order software macros based upon combinators, and the owner
of The
Smalltalk Idiom, a software consultancy based in Endicott, which
developed and tuned systems for clients in California, Washington
State, Oregon, Brazil, and Canada.
Mr
Galkowski
received bachelors and masters degrees from Providence College and the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in physics, electrical
engineering, and computer science. He worked as software and test
engineer for IBM Federal Systems and Loral from 1976-1995. Since 1996,
Mr. Galkowski has done on-site projects for Cornell University, Aetna
US
HealthCare, Westinghouse Nuclear Automation, and others in the
Northeast.
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