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Lena Hall is Senior Director Developers and AI at Akamai. She previously led Developer Experience for North America at AWS and Big Data Developer Relations at Microsoft, and regularly teaches practical AI and developer topics through talks and videos.
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Lena Hall is Senior Director of Developers & AI at Akamai, where she works hands-on on production AI: she authored a detailed engineering walkthrough of building a RAG bot (LangChain/LangGraph, pgvector, FastAPI on Akamai's Linode Kubernetes Engine) and speaks about edge-native, distributed AI inference. Her recent talks and KubeCon EU 2026 appearance focus on closing the latency gap between centralized and distributed AI inference at the cloud edge. Expect practitioner-level, production-grounded insights on building and deploying AI agents.
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GitHub
@lenadroid- lenadroid/awesome-oss-mentors★ 523List of OSS contributors willing to help others with their first pull requests!
- lenadroid/airflow-azure★ 19Apache Airflow on Azure
- lenadroid/show-episode-recommender★ 14A Spark job that generates ranked episode recommendations based on user preference keywords
- lenadroid/goto-cassandra-spark★ 9Spark job that ranks episodes by preference while storing previous search results in Cassandra
Recent writing (1)
- I Built a RAG Bot to Decode Airline Bureaucracy (So You Don't Have To) · blog · Dec 2025
Podcasts & interviews (1)
- Building AI Agents with Lena Hall · Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data Podcast · Dec 2025