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S1:E3 - Marwan Fayed Interview (Part 1)

Data & Dev with Jon and Mel

English - September 28, 2021 02:37 - 43 minutes - 40.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
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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

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