Du'an Lightfoot

Official Role

Senior AI Engineer at Akamai Technologies.

Official Bio

Du'an Lightfoot is a Senior AI Engineer at Akamai Technologies, where his AI and network engineering work connects directly to production infrastructure concerns. At AI Engineer World's Fair 2026, he is scheduled to present a confirmed sponsor session, “Agents That Own Their Inference: Building Production AI Agents on Dedicated GPUs,” focused on production agents, dedicated GPU inference, and the infrastructure tradeoffs behind running agent systems at scale. He previously served as a Senior Developer Advocate at AWS and is the founder of LabEveryDay.

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