Today’s consumers are more engaged with streaming media than ever before. Akamai provides streaming media services with technology solutions geared toward optimizing the workflows of their video engineering departments. \r\n Tedd Smith, a solutions engineer here at Akamai, works as part of our direct-to-consumer group to support our largest media-streaming clients. He enables developer success by crafting solutions to their challenges, resulting in end users everywhere experiencing higher-quality media streaming. \r\n I sat down with Tedd to talk about his role as a solutions engineer, today’s streaming media landscape, and his journey to Akamai. Here are some highlights from my conversation with this programmer-turned-developer-experience expert. \r\n Taking the reins of an exciting new position \r\n Having grown up as a natural tinkerer, Tedd jumped at the opportunity to take a C++ programming class during his junior year of high school.…