Sean Lynch

Sean Lynch is the Head of Data and APIs at Cloudflare, based in San Francisco, California, USA. Before joining Cloudflare, he served as an engineering lead at Stripe, where he contributed to an API ecosystem utilized by millions of software developers worldwide. His earlier career includes technical engineering roles at Heroku, a Salesforce subsidiary, and the backend developer platform Parse. The University of California, Berkeley computer science graduate has played a key role in the growth of Cloudflare Workers and recently authored a March 2025 leadership post on real-time data pipelines. Additionally, he advised on an open-source API tooling release for developers in January 2026 and maintains a professional audience of approximately 5,000 LinkedIn followers. Lynch currently focuses on scaling complex data infrastructure, developer platforms, and cloud computing systems for high-growth global technology enterprises.