Florin Coras is a Software Engineer in the Chief Technology and Architecture Office at Cisco where he focuses on userspace host stacks, network virtualization, and programmable overlays. He has contributed to a number of open source projects including FD.io and OpenDaylight. He is a VPP maintainer, co-developer of the userspace VPP TCP stack and PTL of the Overlay Network Engine project. Florin holds a PhD degree in Computer Science from Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.