Finance Team Peeps
This Finance team member has the second longest tenure behind Matt
Who is Shane?
This team member was hit by a car, launched 15 feet up in the air, and survived with no more than a minor sprain
Who is Michael?
Despite being the hometown of our founder, we didn't open a POP in this town until after our customer Spotify did
What is Stockholm?
The idea to start a company that would later become Fastly came from a friends trip to this resort town
What is Tahoe?
This controls our UI, and is named after a partner dance originated in South America
What is Tango?
These two team members were born in Europe but met their European husbands in America
Who are Adela and Anna?
This team member had a chance encounter with the greatest ever Harvard Basketball player, Jeremy Lin
Who is Yuca?
Added in 2015, this was our very first POP outside the original five billing regions
What is Brazil?
Tommy's son is named this German word for "One"
What is Ein?
Named after the french word for cheese, this is Fastly's error logger
What is Fromage?
There are many parents in Finance; this team members has the newest child
Who is Maria?
Prior to joining Fastly, this team member got to play basketball with two of the greatest 49ers ever, Dwight Clark and Jerry Rice
Who is Criss?
Fastly has been trying to put a POP in this middle eastern country for four years
What is Israel?
Our former board member Gil Penchina met Artur at this company where both were C-suite executives
What is Wikia?
This codebase logs all events, and is named after the order of mammals known for their memory
What is Pachyderm?
This team member speaks Samoan, thanks to a two year stint there in the 2000s
Who is Matt P?
This team member has a secret side job cutting hair
Who is JJ?
New Zealand's largest city, this was a virtual POP for years before a Fastly server was finally installed
What is Auckland?
Our General Counsel Paul was part of his college band in this function, which never required actually picking up an instrument
What is the mascot?
This powerful backend to the visualizations Mission Controls uses is named after the Greek Titan who gave mankind fire
What is Prometheus?
This Finance team member was a CFO before joining Fastly and is not named Adriel
Who is Nate?
This team member is afraid of public speaking now, despite having a string of successful and prominent play roles as a child
Who is Matt?
Known for it's flourishing film industry nicknamed Bollywood, this Indian city was the first to hold a POP in the country
What is Mumbai?
Artur grew in prominence after giving a swearing-laced talk about how people who didn't use this type of hard drive were wasting their lives
What is an SSD?
While many of our codebases are named after American ski resorts, the realtime stats API is named after this famous Canadian ski resort
What is Whistler?