cat about.md

# role

customer solutions engineer at cloudflare. i sit at the intersection of technical depth and relationships — the technical half of the post-sale motion. day-to-day that means understanding what people are actually trying to solve, building working prototypes instead of slideware, and translating in both directions between engineer-speak and business outcomes.

# cloudflare, briefly

i'm an all-around technical resource, so it helps to know what's in the box. here's the shape of the platform in one line each.

• application services — waf, ddos protection, cdn, cache, dns, load balancing. the classic reverse-proxy stack that put cloudflare on the map.
• zero trust / cloudflare one — access, gateway, warp, tunnel, casb, dlp, email security. the sase / sse stack for replacing legacy vpn and building identity-aware architectures.
• developer platform — workers, pages, r2, d1, kv, durable objects, queues, workflows. a serverless runtime that runs at every cloudflare pop, with storage and coordination primitives to match.
• ai — workers ai, ai gateway, vectorize, autorag. inference at the edge, plus tooling to observe and control ai traffic on the way in and out.
• network services / magic — magic transit, magic wan, magic firewall, magic cloud networking. l3/l4 network products that route traffic over cloudflare's backbone and enforce policy at the network layer.
• observability + dex — analytics, logs, digital experience monitoring. so you can actually tell what's happening once traffic starts flowing.

# me, personally

if you've journeyed this far into my spot on the internet, might as well tell you a bit more. i'm rhomanie taylor — friends know me as lotus. got hooked on tech young, went from wanting to build games to falling down the kali linux / hacking rabbit hole in middle school and never really climbed back out.

what keeps me here is the fact that i can't be complacent or bored when there's this much to learn, and the chance to show early-career folks and students that "not knowing" is the point, not a flaw. every new room, class, or conversation is an excuse to learn something else — that's the whole game.

# contact

happy to connect. linkedin's the easiest bet — or if we already work together, you know the drill.