Founder Profile
Lee Holloway
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Lee Holloway?
Lee Holloway is a founder of Cloudflare, Inc., which was founded in 2009 with Matthew Prince and Michelle Zatlyn.
- Company founded
- Cloudflare, Inc.
- Founded
- 2009
- Co-founders
- Matthew Prince and Michelle Zatlyn
Background
Lee Holloway studied computer science at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and co-built Project Honey Pot with Matthew Prince before co-founding Cloudflare, where he led the original engineering of its reverse-proxy network.
Founding Story
Lee Holloway co-founded Cloudflare in 2009 and was its first lead engineer and systems architect. He had earlier built Project Honey Pot with Matthew Prince starting in 2004, and he designed much of Cloudflare's early software infrastructure. Holloway later stepped away from the company after being diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, an illness his family and Prince have spoken about publicly. Lee Holloway was born in 1981.
Sources
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- Cloudflare, Inc. 2025 Form 10-K (Cloudflare, Inc.)
- SEC EDGAR Companyfacts CIK 0001477333 (Cloudflare, Inc.)