Michelle Zatlyn

Career

Zatlyn held positions at Google and Toshiba and launched two startups before co-founding Cloudflare, which launched on September 27, 2010. Zatlyn is the company's President and also serves on the board of directors of Atlassian.¹³

Writing

Zatlyn and Matthew Prince co-write Cloudflare's annual founders' letters, with letters from 2020 through 2026 listed on Zatlyn's Cloudflare Blog author page. The 2026 letter described how automated traffic from AI agents and crawlers passed human activity on the Internet earlier than the company had forecast. In 2021 Zatlyn announced Cloudflare's first Canadian office and team.²³⁵

Work and contributions

• Cloudflare annual founders' letters Show, channel or publication

  Co-writes, with Matthew Prince, Cloudflare's annual founders' letter published each year around the company's September launch anniversary.²⁴³

Timeline

1. Sep 27, 2010Cloudflare, which Zatlyn co-founded, launched.³¹
2. Apr 19, 2021Announced Cloudflare's first Canadian office and team.⁵
3. Sep 21, 2025Co-wrote Cloudflare's 2025 annual founders' letter with Matthew Prince.⁴
4. Sep 27, 2026Co-wrote Cloudflare's 2026 annual founders' letter on AI agents and automated traffic.³

Other documented roles

Roles the sources document that are not confirmed as current.

• Earlier position (before co-founding Cloudflare), Google¹

Where they work

• Cloudflare 3 people in the wiki
• Atlassian 1 person in the wiki

Related people

• Matthew PrinceAlso at Cloudflare
• Dane KnechtAlso at Cloudflare
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• Rev LebaredianBuilders & open source
• Mark CollierBuilders & open source
• Ajeya CotraBuilders & open source
• Zhilin YangBuilders & open source
• Byron BootsBuilders & open source