Sam Rhea
CIO at Cloudflare
Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Rhea is a product and technology leader with nine years of experience building network, privacy, and zero-trust products at Cloudflare, where he now serves as VP of Product and heads the Lisbon office. He blends hands-on product work—shipping Cloudflare One, Access, Gateway, and Argo Tunnel—with strategic incubation of frontier tech, privacy initiatives, and internal AI experimentation. As an adjunct assistant professor teaching Product Management in Technology, he translates large-scale product strategy into classroom-ready frameworks. Sam contributes to Cloudflare’s developer and user-facing documentation, improving tutorials and UX in the widely used cloudflare-docs repository. Based in Lisbon and grounded in a Plan II BA from UT Austin, he combines academic rigor with operational leadership across research, product content, and go-to-market teams.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BA with Highest Honors, Plan II, BA with Highest Honors, Plan II at The University of Texas at Austin
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (7)
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markdown10
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
cloudflare/cloudflare-docs
Oct 2020 - Sep 2021
Cloudflare’s documentation
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:173 reviews, 112 commits, 239 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Sam primarily focused on updating and refining the documentation for the Cloudflare WARP client and Cloudflare for Teams tutorials within the repository. They made several changes to the configuration files, including path prefixes, and site metadata, and also updated the naming schemes. Furthermore, the user added a category to tutorials and implemented local CSS styling and cleaned up names for the tutorial sections, improving the overall user experience.
cloudflaremdxmarkdown
TownLake/blog-samrhea
Jan 2025 - Jul 2026
Contributions:1 review, 47 PRs, 283 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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