Rita Kozlov leads developer-platform and AI product work at Cloudflare. Her career connects software engineering and customer-facing infrastructure work with the development of Workers, Pages and services for autonomous agents.[1][2][3]
Start with Welcome to Agents Week — April 2026 →
X Career
Kozlov studied computer science at Georgia Tech, interned at Microsoft and worked as a software engineer at 6sense before joining Cloudflare in 2016. In her Cloudflare interview, she explains how writing software and working with enterprise customers shaped her approach to developer products. She later moved into Workers product management; her 2021 Pages interview describes extending that platform to a more approachable application-deployment workflow.[3][4]
Contributions
In an April 2026 essay co-authored with Dane Knecht, Kozlov argues that agent workloads need a different foundation from applications serving human requests. Agents require durable state, execution environments, identities and permissions as they act over time. Her work concerns the product strategy for making those capabilities available as a platform.[5]
Ideas
Her August 2026 Agents Week essay describes two simultaneous needs: infrastructure designed for agents and a bridge to the Internet already in use. That framing places access, structure and execution alongside model capability. It gives developers a way to ask what an agent needs around the model before treating another model upgrade as the whole solution.[6]
Tools, writing & talks
Writing, research & talks
Start here
Welcome to Agents Week — April 2026blog.cloudflare.comKozlov and Dane Knecht explain the infrastructure requirements behind Cloudflare’s approach to persistent agent workloads.
Start with the April essay’s explanation of how agent workloads differ from ordinary requests. Use its execution, state and identity requirements as a checklist for the infrastructure around an agent, then follow the linked product documentation.
Co-author with Dane Knecht[5]A conversation with Sunil Pai about Cloudflare’s agent platform, published by Latent Space.
Interview guest[7]Original source- Welcome to Agents Week — August 2026blog.cloudflare.com
An essay on agent-native infrastructure and its connection to the existing Internet.
Author[6]