Olivier Foucher is a seasoned core network engineering manager with 10 years of hands-on experience designing, operating, and scaling global IP and MPLS networks, currently leading Core Network Engineering at Cloudflare in San Francisco. He progressed through technical and leadership roles at Cloudflare after a decade building resilient multi-datacenter infrastructures, routing fabric improvements, and automation at Arkadin and Xerox. Olivier combines deep routing expertise (BGP/OSPF/MP-BGP), traffic engineering and SIP/MPLS carrier integrations with practical automation skills in Python and tooling deployment to improve AS performance. He has a track record of reducing single points of failure across datacenters, driving regional peering strategies, and implementing netflow and monitoring solutions to optimize operations. Comfortable both in tactical incident response and strategic architecture, he brings a systems-first mindset grounded in early Unix/Linux and virtualization experience.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Baccalauréat S, Baccalauréat S at Lycée Jacques Monod
Engineer (UK Meng), Systems, networks and security, Engineer (UK Meng), Systems, networks and security at ESGI - Ecole Supérieure de Génie Informatique
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Olivier Foucher - Core Network Engineering Manager at Cloudflare