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10 Cloudflare engineering leaders
These ten Cloudflare engineering and technology leaders range from the company's Chief Engineering Officer and its Field CTO for EMEA to vice presidents, senior directors and directors of engineering. A reader can learn how Cloudflare's engineering organization builds and runs its network, developer platform, security and media products.
Professionals to explore
01—10Allan Leinwand
LinkedInExperience: Chief Engineering Officer · Cloudflare
Chief Engineering Officer at Cloudflare since June 2026. His profile headline lists earlier roles as CTO of Webflow, Shopify, ServiceNow and Zynga and as SVP Engineering at Slack. He is also a Board Member at Compass (since 2022) and on the Board of Trustees of Harvey Mudd College (since 2020).
Benjamin Yule
LinkedInExperience: VP of Engineering · Cloudflare
VP of Engineering at Cloudflare since October 2024, leading engineering across the Developer Platform according to his profile. At Cloudflare he was previously Senior Director of Engineering (2024), leading the Workers Platform across serverless compute, containers, AI and control plane, and Director Of Engineering - Workers Compute (2022–2024).
Brandon Harris
LinkedInExperience: VP of Engineering · Cloudflare
VP of Engineering at Cloudflare since October 2025. His Cloudflare profile also lists Sr. Director of Engineering (2023–2025) and Director of Engineering (2021–2023), and before Cloudflare he was Director of Engineering at Fiserv (2020–2021) and VP of Engineering at Clover Sport (2019–2020).
Christian Reilly
LinkedInExperience: Field CTO EMEA · Cloudflare
Field CTO EMEA at Cloudflare since May 2024, a role listed at C-Level in the Engineering and Technical department. He was previously Chief Technology Officer (EMEA) at HashiCorp (2023–2024), and at Citrix he held VP, Technology Strategy - Head of Technology Strategy Organization (2021–2022) and VP & Chief Technology Officer (2015–2021).
Dimitris Antonellis
LinkedInExperience: Director Of Engineering · Cloudflare
Director Of Engineering at Cloudflare since 2022, running an organization responsible for products including authoritative DNS, the public DNS Resolver (1.1.1.1) and Load Balancing, according to his profile. At Cloudflare he was previously Senior Engineering Manager (2019–2022), Engineering Manager (2017–2019) and Technical Lead (2015–2017).
Dzevad Trumic
LinkedInExperience: VP of Engineering · Cloudflare
VP of Engineering at Cloudflare since October 2023, where his profile says he runs Foundational Engineering, whose teams cover services including CDN and DNS. He was previously Senior Director of Engineering, Head of Infrastructure at Observe, Inc. (2023), Senior Director, Head of Reliability at Robinhood (2022) and Managing Director, Global Head of SRE at Goldman Sachs (2018–2022).
Ed Conolly
LinkedInExperience: VP of Engineering · Cloudflare
VP of Engineering at Cloudflare since November 2022; his profile says his teams build systems that help protect millions of websites. His profile also lists Chief Technology Officer at Kaluza (2021–2022), Group CTO at OVO (2017–2021) and Technology Director at OVO (2016–2017).
James Darby
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Engineering · Cloudflare
Senior Director of Engineering at Cloudflare since April 2026, after EMEA DC Engineering Director at Cloudflare (2022–2026). Before Cloudflare he was Director - Cloud Infrastructure Engineering (2016–2022) and Senior Infrastructure Manager (2011–2016) at Cisco.
Paul Gunter
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Engineering · Cloudflare
Senior Director of Engineering at Cloudflare since January 2026, where his profile says he is responsible for Enterprise Readiness as part of the Product Platform. He was previously VP of Engineering (2023–2026) and Director of Engineering (2018–2023) at Vectra AI, and his summary describes building and leading teams that deliver solutions around networking and cybersecurity.
Willi Geiger
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering, Media Platform · Cloudflare
Director of Engineering, Media Platform at Cloudflare since May 2023, leading engineering for Cloudflare TV, Images, Stream and Calls according to his profile. He was previously Engineering Director, Data Platform at Netflix (2022–2023), Engineering Manager, Animation Studio Technology at Netflix (2021–2022) and Engineering Manager, Short-Form Video Creation at YouTube (2017–2021).
Choose the right perspective
Match the person's scope to your question, since the Chief Engineering Officer and vice presidents see organization-wide architecture and investment trade-offs while directors know how specific product and infrastructure teams run day to day. Check each person's start date at Cloudflare so you know how much of the current engineering organization they have seen.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How does Cloudflare's engineering organization decide which services to build as shared foundations versus product-specific systems?
- 02What practices help Cloudflare engineering teams ship changes safely across a large global network?
- 03How are engineering teams for developer platform, security and media products at Cloudflare organized and prioritized?
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