"I'm thrilled to be taking over the helm of engineering at CloudFlare. The question shouldn't be why I joined, but rather, why you're not here as well. Come join us and let's make the Internet a better place together. If we happen to build a scalable secure cloud at the same time, even better. If we manage to build a distributed Internet-scale operating system to manage it all, you might call it serendipity." Fathi has more than 30 years of experience in the tech industry, working on UNIX,Linux, Windows, embedded operating systems, and distributed operating systems, according to a report by TechRepublic. At VMware, Fathi ran the core engineering team for vSphere before taking the CTO role. In the blog post, Fathi also described the interview process and meeting the CloudFlare team, which no doubt has some PR purposes as the company is hiring to keep up with its tremendous growth.