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FSLYSoftware - ApplicationSan Francisco, United States

Fastly, Inc. offers an advanced edge cloud computing platform designed to efficiently manage, distribute, and safeguard client applications across a global footprint, including North America, the Asia Pacific region, Europe, and other international markets. This specialized Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) empowers developers to build, secure, and rapidly deliver digital experiences right at the internet's edge. It functions as a highly customizable platform, optimized for web and application delivery. The company's broad range of offerings includes: Compute@Edge, their serverless computing environment. A comprehensive developer hub providing solution patterns, API and language references, change logs, and Fastly Fiddle resources. Specialized edge services such as device detection, geolocation, edge dictionaries, access control lists (ACLs), and authentication. Full site delivery capabilities, encompassing dynamic site acceleration, origin shield, instant cache purging, real-time logging and statistics, cloud optimization, programmatic control, edge databases, content compression, and support for modern protocols to ensure high performance and reliability. Streaming solutions for live media, media shield, and origin connect. Robust edge security features, including Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection, a cloud-based web application firewall (WAF), Transport Layer Security (TLS), platform TLS, and various compliance services. Unified web application and API protection that incorporates runtime self-application protection, advanced rate limiting, API and account takeover (ATO) protection, bot mitigation, and a next-generation WAF. Supplementary edge applications like load balancers and image optimizers. Video on demand services and fully managed edge delivery services. Fastly caters to a wide array of industries, including digital publishing, media and entertainment, technology, e-commerce, travel and hospitality, and financial services. Originally incorporated in 2011 as SkyCache, Inc., the company officially adopted the name Fastly, Inc. in May 2012. Its corporate headquarters are situated in San Francisco, California.

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Fastly at a glance

Fastly is a software - application company headquartered in San Francisco, United States, founded in 2011. It is publicly listed (FSLY) with a market capitalisation of $3.7B. Xcout tracks 20 named people at Fastly, including Charles Compton (Chief Executive Officer & Director). Xcout recorded 82 job postings from Fastly in the last 90 days, naming tools such as GitHub, Salesforce, Looker.

Industry
Software - Application
Headquarters
San Francisco, United States
Market cap
$3.7B
Employees
1,140
Ticker
FSLY
Founded
2011
Job postings recorded (90 days)
82
Xcout AI Rank
22/100 ▲
Xcout Green Rank
0/100

Fastly leadership

  • Charles ComptonChief Executive Officer & Director
  • Scott R. LovettPresident of Go to Market
  • Richard H. WongChief Financial Officer
  • Joan JenkinsChief Marketing Officer
  • Kim OgletreeChief Customer Officer
  • Marshall ErwinChief Information Security Officer

14 more named people on record for Fastly, with roles, board committees and tenure — see the full roster →

Fastly funding rounds before its IPO

Every round on record:

DateRoundAmountInvestors
Series B$10M1 named

Financing after the IPO — public offerings and SEC Form D private placements — is not listed as a funding round.

Who invested in each round, lead investors, valuations and the co-investor graph — open the full funding history →

Hiring at Fastly

Xcout recorded 82 job postings from Fastly in the last 90 days, from a hiring record Xcout has kept since June 2026.

Tools named in Fastly's job postings

GitHubSalesforceLookerTableauClaudeGeminiGrafanaPrometheusConfluenceCoupaDatadogJira

The weekly hiring trend, the roles and locations behind it and all 18 tools — see Fastly's hiring signals →

Hiring vs the trend

In line in AI hiring

Based on 91 job postings in the last 8 weeks (24 Aug – 18 Oct 2026), compared with 400 scale-up technology companies.

This describes a hiring pattern — how often Fastly’s job postings ask for AI skills, and how that changed against the previous 8 weeks, ranked among its peers. It says nothing about the company’s products or performance.

Signed-in members see the AI-skill share and its change with peer percentiles, role mix, posting momentum and advertised US pay against the market.

Investors

Tech stack

PythonGCPAWSTerraformKubernetesRustAnsibleAzureDockerJavaRubyBigQuery

Fastly competitors

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Akamai Technologies0HBQ · Cloud InfrastructureCambridge, United States
74% matchPublic

Akamai Technologies, Inc. offers a global suite of cloud-based services, extending across the United States and internationally, designed to enhance security, accelerate delivery, and optimize the performance of internet content and business applications. The company provides specialized cloud solutions to protect critical digital assets, including IT infrastructure, websites, software applications, application programming interfaces (APIs), and users, from a wide range of cyberattacks and online threats, while simultaneously boosting their operational efficiency. Akamai also develops solutions for improving web and mobile application responsiveness, alongside comprehensive media delivery offerings such as video streaming, video player services, game and software distribution, broadcast management, authoritative domain name system resolution, and detailed data analytics. Furthermore, its edge compute solutions empower developers to deploy and distribute code closer to end-users for optimized performance. The company also caters to telecommunication carriers with tailored services, including advanced cybersecurity protection, parental controls, DNS infrastructure management, and content delivery solutions. Complementing its product portfolio, Akamai provides extensive service and support to guide customers through the integration, configuration, optimization, and ongoing management of its diverse offerings. These sophisticated solutions are distributed via both Akamai's dedicated direct sales and service organizations and a network of strategic channel partners. Established in 1998, Akamai Technologies, Inc. has its corporate headquarters situated in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Market cap$18.2B
Employees10,811
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CloudflareNET · Cloud InfrastructureSan Francisco, United States
76% matchPublicAI 49/100 ▼Green 2/100

Cloudflare, Inc. functions as a global provider of cloud-based services. The company delivers a comprehensive, integrated cloud security platform designed to safeguard a diverse array of digital environments, encompassing public and private clouds, on-premises infrastructure, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Its security portfolio features tools such as cloud firewalls, bot mitigation, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) protection, IoT security, SSL/TLS encryption, secure origin connections, and rate limiting capabilities. Beyond security, Cloudflare also boosts online performance through services like content delivery networks (CDNs), intelligent routing, and various content, mobile, and image optimization tools. For enhanced reliability and availability, it provides solutions such as load balancing, its proprietary Anycast network, a virtual backbone, DNS services, DNS resolvers, and virtual waiting rooms. Furthermore, the company offers internal infrastructure tools, including "on-ramps" that facilitate seamless connections for users, devices, or locations to its expansive network, alongside "filters" engineered for data protection, inspection, and access management. Developer-centric solutions encompass serverless computing, programmable networks, website creation, domain registration, a suite of Cloudflare applications, advanced analytics, and data localization management. For individual consumers, Cloudflare provides a DNS Resolver application to improve internet browsing and a Consumer VPN to secure and speed up mobile device traffic. Its clientele spans a broad spectrum of industries, including technology, healthcare, financial services, consumer and retail, non-profit organizations, and government agencies. Established in 2009, Cloudflare, Inc. is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Market cap$109.5B
Employees5,156
PythonJavaScriptGCPAWSAzure
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More on Fastly in Xcout Intel

  • 20 named people with titles, LinkedIn and board committees
  • 1 funding round before the IPO with the investors in each, and who they co-invest with
  • Weekly hiring history and the mix of roles behind it
  • 2 corporate events with sources — deals, leadership changes, layoffs
  • The full competitor set, tracking, exports and API access
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