
Chris Milsted
Chris Milsted is a Technical Solutions Architect at Akamai, where he helps shape the future of energy-efficient cloud infrastructure. With a deep background in Kubernetes, open source, and scalable video workflows, Chris has held senior engineering roles at VMware, Ondat, and Red Hat. He recently led benchmarking efforts comparing VPUs and GPUs in live transcoding environments, demonstrating dramatic improvements in power efficiency and cost-per-stream. Chris is a frequent speaker at KubeCon and a published IBM Redbook autho