Post by Srishti Mehta

Last week, I was impacted by the layoffs at Cloudflare. Even though my time at Cloudflare was short, it was one of the most intense learning experiences of my career. In just a few months working on enterprise security products, I got to ship multiple features, work alongside incredibly talented teams, and experience what high-velocity product execution looks like at scale. I’m proud of the way we approached building products, embracing AI early in our workflows to expand what small teams could accomplish and accelerate how quickly ideas could move from concept to execution. It pushed us to work faster, iterate more freely, and rethink how modern product development should feel. What I’m most grateful for, though, is the people. The engineers, designers, PMs, and cross-functional partners I worked with made even the hardest problems exciting to solve. Special thanks to Abraham Carryl, Pragyan Das, Noelle K., Rahul Chocha, Sourav Singh R., Vankshu Bansal, Lancy J., and CHARIK GOYAL Layoffs are never easy, but I’m proud of the work we accomplished and excited for what’s next. I’m now exploring Product Management opportunities. If you know of teams hiring PMs, I’d love to connect. Onwards and upwards 🚀