Strategic Solutions Engineer at Cloudflare with 20+ years in infrastructure and security. I help organizations design secure, resilient architectures using Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud, Zero Trust services, and developer platform. I’ve guided startups and enterprises through high-stakes PoCs, migrations, and transformations across DNS, AppSec, DDoS, and network modernization. My focus: turning infrastructure fragility into business resilience.
Suzanne Aldrich grew up in northern California surrounded by redwoods, rocky coastline, and a constant curiosity for how systems fit together. She studied Computer Science at Stanford, where she helped design the Wearable Computing Lab’s website on what was then the smallest Linux webserver in the world. That early work foreshadowed a career at the intersection of people and technology.
Today, Suzanne is a Strategic Solutions Engineer at Cloudflare, where she works with organizations to design secure, resilient architectures using the connectivity cloud, Zero Trust, and developer-first platforms. She has led customers through high-stakes proofs of concept, DNS and AppSec transformations, and complex migrations.
Suzanne speaks frequently at conferences — from DrupalCon Vienna and BuildersCon Tokyo to FutureCon Seattle 2025 and Cloudflare Connect Las Vegas — covering topics such as Zero Trust adoption, DDoS mitigation, and designing around infrastructure failure.
Beyond technology, Suzanne is an active community builder on Whidbey Island, a mom raising the next generation of engineers, and a lifelong believer in resilience — whether in networks, movements, or people.
BS, Science, Technology, & Society
Stanford University
Minor, Computer Science
Stanford University
My work explores how internet infrastructure can be made secure, performant, and resilient in the face of inevitable failure. From expired certificates to congested transit providers, no system is perfect — but modern architectures can bend without breaking.
Recent focus areas:
I share findings through talks and workshops — most recently at FutureCon Seattle 2025 and soon at Cloudflare Connect Las Vegas.
👉 Please reach out if you’d like to collaborate on research, panels, or community events!
Busted flat in cyberspace, waitin’ for a friend
Feelin’ nearly lost as my patience starts to thin
ChatGPT just logged in, over the Wi-Fi high
And I helped myself to knowledge, for it’s always by my side
To db, or not to db, that is the question:
Whether ’tis Nobler in the CPU to suffer
The Drains and Errors of migration’s Fortune,
Or to take ARMs against a Seagate of troubles,
And by opposing end() them: to die(), to sleep()
No more…
Way back in the fall of 2014 I started a new blog, suzanne.link, for publishing my technical articles and random nerd humor. Unlike most websites I’d ever built before, I created this one with WordPress 4 and later on added the Layers theme, which allowed me to construct a homepage with a custom layout fairly easily and with zero code. My blog was hosted on the managed website platform Pantheon, where I’d worked, and this setup served me quite well for five years. Over this period I authored a few posts and migrated some articles over from my OG blog.
Recently while sorting through my late Uncle’s belongings, I located this handwritten letter to my Grandfather which I wrote him during the Winter quarter while attending Stanford University. I think my observation from the class I was taking in the German Department is particularly chilling, especially in light of recent events
So Drup-al funny how it seems Always run-time, but never inline for dreams. Head over heels when toe to toe. This is the sound of my LOL, This is the sound
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