Hi there. My name is Sam. I am a Texan living in Lisbon. I work at Cloudflare.
I'm probably busy right now building an application for a hobby project that doesn't need one. Or walking a dog we named after the second-worst highway in Austin.
At Work
Cloudflare
2018 - PresentVP of Product, Frontiers
Apr 2025 - PresentHelping build the future at Cloudflare. Also, Head of the Lisbon Office.
– Cloudflare Research: our frontier technology group.
– Cloudflare Privacy: making the Internet more private for anyone, anywhere.
– Cloudflare Radar: our view into the Internet.
– Cloudflare Blog: telling our story to a technical audience.
– Cloudflare Documentation: our product content team that helps users understand our products.
– Cloudflare Content Engineering: our team responsible for building the tools users need to learn how to best use Cloudflare.
– Internal AI Czar: I get to experiment with how we use AI to build better products at Cloudflare.
VP of Product
Jun 2024 - Apr 2025Handed off the keys to Cloudflare Zero Trust to an amazing team I had built and returned to the lab. Helped build the future in the Emerging Technology and Incubation team at Cloudflare.
– Launched AI Audit to give publishers control of their content from AI bots.
VP of Product, Cloudflare Zero Trust
Oct 2022 - Jun 2024Led the Cloudflare Zero Trust product line.
– We made the biggest leap in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Security Service Edge .
– We became the only new vendor in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Security Service Edge .
– We kept customers safe while they adopted AI tools .
– Cloudflare brought the Zero Trust products into our Galileo and Athenian projects .
– Also, I killed Railgun .
Senior Director of Product
Apr 2022 - Oct 2022Led the Cloudflare Zero Trust product line.
Director of Product
Jul 2020 - Apr 2022Led the Cloudflare Zero Trust product line.
– Acquired Vectrix to integrate CASB capabilities for SaaS application security.
– Launched Cloudflare One , our comprehensive Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solution.
– Launched our comprehensive DLP suite.
– Shipped Cloudflare's Secure Web Gateway .
– Gave customers the ability to require hard keys on a per-app basis.
– Brought Zero Trust control to SaaS apps , too.
– Helped customers deploy Zero Trust networks to replace their legacy networks .
– Selected by CISA to offer Internet security to US civilian agencies.
Product Manager
Jun 2018 - Jul 2020Product Manager for Cloudflare Access, Cloudflare Registrar, and Cloudflare Tunnel.
– Launched Cloudflare Access to help teams turn off legacy VPNs.
– Shipped Cloudflare Registrar , our at-cost domain registration product.
– Added SSH , service tokens , command line flows , RDP support , and comprehensive logging to our Zero Trust platform.
– Made auth seamless by shipping the App Launcher , adding Multi-SSO support , mutual TLS flows , and per-app identity choice .
– Made Cloudflare Tunnel free for secure connections.
– Made DNSSEC one-click for all Registrar customers.
DevFactory
2013 - 2018Product Manager
Part of the Product and Engineering assembly line component of ESW Capital.
Ginor & Associates
2012 - 2013Associate
Becker Venture Services Group
2011 - 2012Research Associate
Patents
Education
The University of Texas at Austin
2009 - 2013
BA with Highest Honors, Plan II
4.0 GPA - All coursework
Honors
Positions
Teaching Assistant to Bill Powers, President of UT Austin (Fall 2012) , Research Assistant to Lance Bertelsen, PhD (Spring and Fall 2010)
Scholarships
Normandy Scholars Program , Charles P. Shearn Endowed Scholarship (2012-2013) , Plan II Alumni Endowed Presidential Scholarship (2011-2012) , William Harold Whited Endowed Scholarship (2010-2011)