Aaron Russell

Biography

As Global Director of Edge Network Infrastructure at Meta, Aaron leads a global engineering organization responsible for advancing Meta's edge infrastructure strategy. His work focuses on extending GPU compute and caching closer to users through Meta's Edge Cloud and content delivery network PoPs, enhancing performance and minimizing latency for Meta's family of apps, A.I., and Reality Labs content. His work enabled Meta to deliver billions of videos and photos efficiently across its platforms to users, along with supporting the training of Meta's open weights models across its network infrastructure stack.

Sessions

1. The Engineering Edge

   Wed, Nov 4, 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM CT

   Track Engineering

   Aaron Russell leads the infrastructure that delivers AI-powered content to billions of users across Meta's global platforms, from edge compute and GPU caching to video optimization at hyperscale. For engineers building AI-powered products, this is the conversation happening one layer below the model: how do you architect systems when AI becomes an infrastructure constraint rather than just a feature? Aaron brings the view from the technical frontier that most engineers will never see up close.