He helped build the Akamai content delivery network,[3][4] one of the world's largest distributed computing platforms.
[5] Ramesh Sitaraman received a B.Tech in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and a Ph.D (1993) in computer science from Princeton University under Robert Tarjan.
[7][8] Currently, he is a distinguished professor in the computer science department at University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
[14][15][16][17][18] Sitaraman was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2019 "for contributions to content delivery networks, distributed systems, and scalable Internet services".
[19] He was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 2019 "for contributions to content delivery, internet performance and distributed systems".