Erik Bremen
Principal Systems Engineer at Cloudflare
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorErik Bremen is a Principal Systems Engineer in Seattle with 15 years building high-performance networking and distributed systems for edge and carrier-scale environments. He has led design and operation of global network proxies and Zero Trust/WARP ingress services at Cloudflare and previously founded Nominum’s N2 Platform to enforce per-subscriber policies for tens of millions of users. Erik introduced Rust into production at Akamai, built low-latency distributed configuration buses on Kafka/Postgres, and authored performance-critical L7 proxies in C++, demonstrating deep protocol and systems expertise across languages. He combines hands-on implementation with org-level technical leadership in security, reliability, and operational safety. Notably, he launched an MASQUE-based global edge service and has a history of open-source work in proxy detection from earlier in his career. His career reflects a blend of carrier-scale reliability, protocol innovation, and pragmatic adoption of new tooling.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (43)
debugging10
scheme10
r5rs10
ssl9
security9
proxy9
websocket9
fiddler9
formatting9
http-header9
ja39
mitmproxy9
man-in-the-middle8
rust8
xterm8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
strtok/rust-closure-parcom
Jan 2019 - Sep 2020
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 27 pushes in 1 year 8 months
strtok/parcom
Nov 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:11 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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