Phread has over 30 years of experience working with technology leaders throughout a number of industries including managing data centers, writing device drivers, and authoring technical documentation. Moving into a Solutions Engineer role, he enjoys working with a wide variety of customers with different priorities and challenges.

Phread joined Cloudflare two years ago and has discovered it to be the fastest moving technology provider he has ever worked with and enjoys the variety of challenges that his customers present him with. His experience and customer interaction enables him to develop customer-centric solutions that range from reference architecture simplicity to out-of-the-box thinking where sometimes the correct solution is less than obvious.