Fastly is a leading edge cloud platform offering CDN, edge computing, security, and real-time visibility for modern web applications. By running logic closer to users, it accelerates content delivery, reduces latency, and improves performance. Fastly enables instant cache purging and highly programmable configurations to support fast, secure, and engaging digital experiences.
Fastly operates as a technology company that centers its operations on providing developers with programmable infrastructure solutions for content delivery and application acceleration and security needs. The platform enables organizations to protect their digital assets against threats including DDoS attacks and malicious bot activity while handling dynamic web and API workloads and streaming media and image optimization tasks.
Fastly provides engineering teams with tools to create and protect and expand their digital products while maintaining high standards of performance and reliability and transparent operations. The company partners with international businesses in the media and fintech and e-commerce sectors to provide support for contemporary system designs and open-source development.
| Legal Name | Fastly, Inc |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California |
| Business Model | B2C |
| Founding Date | March 2011 |
| No. of Employees | Approx 1,100 (As of 2025) |
Fastly offers an edge cloud platform delivering content delivery (CDN), live and on-demand video streaming, edge compute, security services like WAF and DDoS protection, observability, image optimization, load balancing, and developer tools to build, secure, and scale high-performance digital applications globally.
| Kip Compton | Chief Executive Officer and Director |
| Artur Bergman | Chief Technology Officer and Director |
| Richard Wong | Chief Financial Officer |
| Scott R. Lovett | President, Go-To-Market |
| Joan Jenkins | Chief Marketing Officer |
| Kelly Shortridge | Chief Product Officer |
| Hossein Lotfi | Senior Vice President of Engineering |
| Kim Ogletree | Chief Customer Officer |
| Puja Jaspal | Chief People Officer |
| Tara Seracka | Chief Legal Officer |
Fastly generates revenue through usage-based and subscription pricing across CDN, security, and edge services globally.
Client Segments: Enterprises and digital-native companies requiring high-performance content delivery, security, and edge computing solutions.
Target Companies: Media, streaming, e-commerce, SaaS, fintech, and technology firms focused on speed and security.
Target Geography: Global customers across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and international cloud-enabled markets.