Field CTO EMEA @cloudflare. Former VP, Tech Strategy & CTO @Citrix & @Bechtel and @hashicorp. Imagineer. Golf. Tech Advisor. Bourbon. Man City. Lancs CCC.
UK. USA. Airports of the world
Joined June 2008
- Tweets96.6K
- Following4.1K
- Followers18.2K
- Likes49.5K
👀
A hop-by-hop view of @Cloudflare network engineer @tstrickx crossing the Atlantic on Starlink Wi-Fi.
Over 8 hours and 7,000 km, Starlink handed off satellites every 15 seconds and carried traffic through 7 Cloudflare deployments. Each plane appears to keep its own IPv6 /56.
Over the ocean, inter-satellite lasers carried traffic to the nearest available ground station. Cloudflare’s anycast routing followed it, keeping traffic local as the plane moved at 40,000 feet and 500 knots.
- Ocean crossings use inter-satellite laser links until traffic can reach a ground station.
- Those laser routes appeared slower than fiber in this single test.
- Latency showed two distinct bands, possibly from first-packet dataplane setup.
- Ground-station selection changed during the flight, including a Canada-to-US switch near the border.
- Cloudflare’s anycast routing followed the ground station, not the plane’s source address. That kept traffic local without DNS-based steering.
starlink.ecmp.network/f/2026…
Christian Reilly retweeted
This is going to be a very important resource for everyone managing any technology infrastructure to bookmark.
Introducing Zero Wire: a public vulnerability intelligence feed on @CloudflareRadar, bringing the clarity of a news wire service to critical security developments. cfl.re/4iCvSbj
Christian Reilly retweeted
if you have built with @CloudflareDev before and loved it, have 5+ years of eng experience, would love to help our most forward leaning customers build more on the orange cloud and are in the US
we’re hiring
Christian Reilly retweeted
Good progress in the last few weeks ! And now the weights
Today, we release the weights of a new and improved Le Chonk, advancing the open frontier for agentic coding and cybersecurity.
💻 Built to build: Le Chonk ranks #1 on @cognition’s FrontierCode among open models, and sets a new benchmark for Pareto efficiency on @artificialanalysis.
🛡 Built to defend: State-of-the-art in cyberdefense, put through the paces by the world's leading cyber vendors, including @CrowdStrike, @cloudflare, @rubrik, @zscaler, and others.
Built for sovereignty: Make it yours. Download the weights on @huggingface , customize it with Mistral Forge, and deploy it wherever you need it.
Read more from our team and customers 👇:
Christian Reilly retweeted
Today, we’re opening @Lovable’s office in London.
Some of our earliest team members were based in London, and seeing that team grow to 70 people is something I'm really proud of.
London is full of brilliant engineers, designers, and creative minds. We have an incredible team here, and it's now our second engineering, product, and design hub after Stockholm.
We're growing fast, and we're hiring more people to join us.
Read in full: lovable.dev/blog/hello-from-…
On the road again to meet with the execs of some of our biggest @Cloudflare customers in Spain. Each month we bring news of more innovations to every one of them. Fun times, but tinged with heartfelt sadness of the terrible news today from Madrid. 🇪🇸
Christian Reilly retweeted
Always have enjoyed CTFs. So I Asked the team to build one for the php2shell CVEs.
Stock PHP 8.5.11 behind our WAF with default rules. Find a way around and read /flag and report to earn bounty.
REMINDER - WAF buys you time. It isn't bulletproof. Upgrade your PHP.
blog.cloudflare.com/php-ctf
Christian Reilly retweeted
who wants to try an early preview of spend limits on cloudflare?? 👀👀👀
A lot of folks have asked for Spend management limits on @Cloudflare for some time now
I've spent the last three months rebuilding our billing usage platform to enable this for our product catalog starting with Workers and Durable Objects and I'm pleased to give you a quick sneak peek 🫣
Shipping on Cloudflare for humans and agents shortly along with an engineering deep dive on how we did it
Send me or @irvinebroque a DM if you want to try it early
Possibly one of the best open roles in @Cloudflare
Don’t hang around.
job-boards.greenhouse.io/clo…
Everything from @Cloudflare Connect available to watch at your leisure.
👇
Couldn't make it to #CloudflareConnect 2026 in San Francisco? We've got you covered.
Keynotes, breakout sessions, and resources from Connect are now available on demand — and new sessions are being added regularly.
Explore what you missed: cfl.re/4jDE65e
The universe is a wonderful place. 15 years after I last saw him in person, I find myself casually chatting with @leinwand at @Cloudflare Connect this week. I’ll never forget Allan’s grace and guidance to me long ago. A pleasure to work together now.
Christian Reilly retweeted
Christian, thanks so much! I really appreciate your kind words..
I really hope that people can find something that really inspires them at Idealab.ai
Incredible. Just incredible. @Bill_Gross
fortune.com/2026/10/20/ideal…
The @IpswichTown fans today at the Etihad were superb. We don’t mind the banter from proper clubs with proper history. Best of luck for the rest of the season. #itfc
Christian Reilly retweeted
it's decision model season 🍂
today, we open sourced clef and clef-flash, our first homegrown models — both now available on @cloudflare workers ai!
demo / leaderboard: clef-evals.workers-ai-mle.wo…
blog: blog.cloudflare.com/clef-dec…
Christian Reilly retweeted
Think any CFOs will want this?
intelligent routing to optimize your model choices and token spend, now on @Cloudflare ai gateway. the control plane for your ai usage. blog.cloudflare.com/auto-rou…
A personal contribution to @cloudflare birthday week. Many of our major customers (and prospects) have been asking us for guidance and how we think about what is going to be needed for security in the AI era. Here's some of our thoughts. blog.cloudflare.com/ai-era-f…
Christian Reilly retweeted
Also launching today, and this is the big one: cf in open beta.
cf is the new CLI for the whole of Cloudflare. Where Wrangler focused on Workers, cf exposes the whole API surface for agents.
Testing this has made using Cloudflare so easy.
blog.cloudflare.com/cloudfla…
Christian Reilly retweeted
Welcome to @Cloudflare's #BirthdayWeek. As is our tradition, @zatlyn and I penned our annual Founders' Letter to kick the week off: blog.cloudflare.com/cloudfla…
