Starting as an Engineering Manager
February 26, 2018 4:58 PM
I joined Cloudflare as an Engineering Manager, and wanted to make the most of the experience. Here are my objectives and some principles I followed....
Why I’m helping Cloudflare grow in Asia
February 14, 2018 1:00 AM
I’m excited to announce that I’ve joined Cloudflare as Head of Asia. This is an important time for the company as we continue to grow our presence in the region and build on the successes we’ve already had in our Singapore office. ...
Coming soon to a university near you
February 01, 2018 10:04 PM
Attention software engineering students: Cloudflare is coming to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and we want to meet you! We will be attending UW–Madison’s Career Connection....
Highlights from Cloudflare's Weekend at YHack
December 16, 2017 5:00 PM
Along with four other Cloudflare colleagues, I traveled to New Haven, CT last weekend to support 1,000+ college students from Yale and beyond at YHack hackathon....
What I learned at my first Cloudflare Retreat
November 29, 2017 5:31 PM
For the last seven years, Cloudflare has taken the entire company off site for a few days at the end of the year for a company retreat. ...
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August 23, 2017 8:57 PM
Going Global - a Localization Case Study at Cloudflare
Today Cloudflare serves nearly 10% of all global internet requests and more than 80% of our customers are based outside of the United States. ...
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August 10, 2017 5:17 PM
Moving Forward with Path Forward
In February, I blogged about our first rotation of Path Forward returnships and the awesome people we’ve hired as a result of the program....
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February 15, 2017 7:20 PM
Discovering Great Talent with Path Forward
In the fall of 2016, I was just beginning my job search. I’d been lucky to lead HR at a number of great cutting-edge technology start-ups, and I was looking for my next adventure....
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July 14, 2015 5:25 PM
CloudFlare Lands a New Office in Singapore
After months of preparation, my teammates Algin, Marty, Adam, Jono and I touched down in Singapore and were greeted by skyscrapers, malls, Singlish, chili crab, and Marty’s special sweet and sour chicken. It immediately hit us that we were no longer in San Francisco....
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May 11, 2015 10:08 AM
CloudFlare "Interview Questions"
For quite some time we've been grilling our candidates about dirty corners of TCP/IP stack. Every engineer here must prove his/her comprehensive understanding of the full network stack. For example: what are the differences in checksumming algorithms between IPv4 and IPv6 stacks?...
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January 30, 2014 2:00 PM
Stories from our recent global data center upgrade
Each day at CloudFlare is full of surprises. As it turns out, it takes a lot of work to stop massive attacks and to help make the web faster. Over the past six months, our entire team has contributed in every way imaginable to more than double the capacity of our global network....
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November 18, 2012 12:35 AM
Do you want to work with Go?
It's no secret that CloudFlare has adopted Go for some production systems; we've written about our use of Go in the past. But over time it's become clear to us that Go is an important language for the sort of high-performance, highly-concurrent software we have to write....
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March 23, 2011 10:35 PM
CloudFlare Opens Its Office in San Francisco, and Brings on New Talent
In February, CloudFlare packed up our first office in Palo Alto and headed up the 101 to San Francisco. The new office is located in the heart of San Francisco's SOMA district, complete with an one block walk to Caltrain, the Giants stadium and Blue Bottle Coffee....
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March 09, 2011 7:59 PM
Meet the (Sometimes Goofy) CloudFlare Team
CloudFlare launched to the public at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference on September 27, 2010. We were named the Most Innovative Company at the conference and came in second in the overall competition. Recently we were invited by TechCrunch to write an update on what's happened si...
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