Dane Knecht
Chief Technical Officer of Cloudflare, based in Austin, Texas (as of 2026).
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- Dane Knecht is Cloudflare's Chief Technical Officer, based in Austin, Texas (as of 2026).
- He wrote Cloudflare's public post-mortem of its 5 December 2025 outage.
- Later that month he announced "Code Orange: Fail Small", Cloudflare's plan to stop such outages recurring.
- In April 2026 he and Rita Kozlov opened Cloudflare's Agents Week.
Key facts
- Role
- Chief Technical Officer, Cloudflare; Austin, Texas (as of 2026)1
- Outage report
- Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025 (5 December 2025)1
- Resilience plan
- Code Orange: Fail Small (19 December 2025)1
- Agents Week
- Welcome to Agents Week, with Rita Kozlov (12 April 2026)1
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Chief Technical Officer (as of 2026) source on Cloudflare
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