Our first interview of the season.
The accomplished and ever so humble, Marwan Fayed, joins us today.
Find him at St. Andrews or at Cloudflare.
Timstamps:
0:00 - Intro
1:56 - Interview; Marwan Introduction
2:16 - Role at Cloudflare
4:25 - Community Broadband ISP
5:56 - Industry vs. Academia
7:08 - Day to Day at current role
8:56 - What does an industry lab look like?
10:45 - Security and Privacy research prioritized at Cloudflare
11:31 - What is TLS 1.3
14:26 - Research at Cloudflare
15:09 - Oblivious DNS over HTTPS (ODOH)
17:56 - More on privacy
21:51 - Where does a research idea come from
23:41 - Humility matters in research
25:37 - 2 guiding principles of research
26:11 - Marwan’s lightbulb moment
30:31 - Overlap between reserach and business
31:21 - Community Broadband ISP
33:56 - “No one gets fired for hiring IBM”
36:21 - Backhaul internet
41:06 - Biggest challenges were people, not technology
43:25 - Goodbye
