Peter Danzig is an adjunct Associate Professor at the University Southern California. Danzig is former Vice President of Technology of  Akamai Technology's west coast team, where he directed engineering and business development. He has published extensively. Danzig's research on Internet object caches became the reference implementation for Internet web caches and the basis of the most successful commercial Content Delivery Networks, Squid, the Cisco cache engine, and Network Appliance's NetCache. Danzig served as chief architect and CTO of Network Appliance's NetCache division. Danzig founded Internet Middleware Corporation to build the first industry grade web caches, and sold the company to Network Appliance in 1997. Danzig received his B.S. in Applied Physics from University of California Davis and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California Berkeley.

He has won the NSF National Young Investigator award, two USC Innovative Teaching Awards, and the U.C. Berkeley Angelokous award. Danzig and his wife Lava Thomas live in Menlo Park, California.   He taught at Stanford Computer Science Department in the Spring 2001 quarter, and lectured in Spring 2002, 2003, and 2004. Danzig is on the Technology Advisory Board of: Addamark Technologies which makes a Log Management System. Peribit Networks which makes sequence reduction products to speed network communication. Peter is an avid soccer player and is an active member of the youth soccer community where he serves as a board member of Union Football Club. Danzig has also enjoyed traveling overseas to watch EPL and ECL matches.