

Backstage Pass with SPC | Dane Knecht, CTO @ Cloudflare | Building Systems That Scale Trust
South Park Commons India is excited to host Cloudflare’s CTO, Dane Knecht for an AMA!
What does it take to build infrastructure billions of people rely on, but almost never notice (until it breaks, which is almost never)? Get a rare peek behind the curtain of one of the internet’s most critical companies, as Dane joins us for a candid AMA on how to:
Build trust through invisible infrastructure and make reliability your moat
Design and scale infrastructure in the new age of the internet
Architect AI-native applications on a Cloudflare stack
Key advice for early-stage CTOs
Create and scale peak engineering culture, including:
Becoming critical internet infrastructure
Practicing ‘transparency as strategy’ in engineering teams
Hiring principles for high-performance, talent-dense teams
Rapid decision-making at scale
Navigating the challenges of growing from a team of 30 to 4000+
Format:
📍 40-minute AMA (moderated), followed by a social mixer with snacks and beverages (Limited seats)
For: Early-stage Founders, technical builders, and founding engineers at early stage startups.
About South Park Commons
SPC is a home for the most talented technologists figuring out what's next—a community designed to turn the chaos of possibility into the clarity of conviction. Whether you're exploring startup ideas, refining your thinking on a new product, or looking to dive into a new domain, we're here to help you get from -1 to 0.