Nitin Rao

Founder, Stealth Startup

Nitin Rao is currently building a new venture in stealth, focused on infrastructure for agents and agents for infrastructure.

Prior to this, Nitin spent nearly 12 years at Cloudflare, where he played a central role in scaling the company from its early days to a major global infrastructure provider. As SVP of Global Infrastructure (2013–2023), reporting to the CEO, he helped grow the business from nearly $0 to over $1 billion in annualized revenue, building Cloudflare’s global network across more than 100 countries. His work helped protect 30% of the Fortune 1000 and more than 25 million Internet properties, securing trillions of Internet transactions daily. He managed hundreds of millions of dollars in infrastructure investments and led business development, hardware systems engineering, and operations teams. He later served as Interim Chief Product Officer (2023–2025), during which time Cloudflare grew to over $2 billion in annualized revenue.

Before Cloudflare, Nitin co-founded Sunglass, a 3D design platform that was later acquired.

Nitin holds an MBA in Entrepreneurship & Innovation from the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he was a Convocation Student Speaker and a 2009 TED Fellow, and a B.Tech in Information Technology from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal.