Connor Harwood is a Senior Engineering Manager based in Los Angeles with 11 years of experience building and scaling performant systems across CDN, machine learning, computer vision, and drone automation domains. He has led core infrastructure and developer-experience initiatives at Cloudflare and helped architect backbone products at a unicorn startup, moving teams from seed-stage scrappiness to production-grade reliability. Connor combines hands-on systems engineering with people leadership, having owned cache and speed platforms, edge authorization, and in-browser 3D tooling earlier in his career. He is a fierce proponent of developer experience as a multiplier for productivity and has a track record of reducing operational pain while improving bandwidth and CPU efficiency. Comfortable across the full stack, he uniquely blends liberal-arts curiosity with pragmatic engineering—early roles include coaching and lab teaching that inform his collaborative management style.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Liberal Arts and Sciences, Liberal Arts and Sciences at St. John's College
Full-stack web development, Full-stack web development at Dev Bootcamp
Contributions:5 PRs, 11 pushes, 5 branches in 11 days
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Connor Harwood - Senior Engineering Manager at Cloudflare