|a Futurum companyCoverage
Cloud NativeCI/CDDevSecOpsPlatform EngineeringDataOpsContinuous TestingLow-Code / No-CodeIT as CodeEnterprise DevOpsMedia
Techstrong TV LiveVideo InterviewsTech Field DayTechstrong GangAgents of DevSecurity BoulevardCloud Native NowDigital CxO
Contributing Writer
Charlie Gero is a VP & CTO of the Enterprise Division at Akamai as well as leads the Advanced Projects Group. He currently focuses on bleeding edge research in the areas of security, applied mathematics, cryptography, and distributed algorithms in order to build the next generation of technologies that will protect Akamai's growing customer base. Through his research at Akamai, he has secured nearly 30 patents in cryptography, compression, performant network systems, real time media distribution
AI-powered patching and coding is putting us on a track towards a deepening dependency on future frontier models. The modern tools we use today to fix yesterday’s coding problems are quietly creating tomorrow’s quagmire. Companies are using AI to pay down 20 years of tech debt, but in doing so we’re generating a future problem […]
Aug 4, 2026 · 3 min