Thomas Graf

Thomas is a long-time leader in the Linux kernel networking community at both Red Hat and Cisco. As Architect and Technical Lead for core networking kernel team at Red Hat, Thomas lead the team integrating Open vSwitch into Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). As a Kernel developer, he developed a number of key Linux kernel functionalities that improved scale and performance. He founded the Cilium project after recognizing the incredible potential of eBPF to revolutionize all aspects of Linux networking & security.