Cristian Dumitrescu is a SW architect at Intel. His focus is data plane packet processing, with many contributions to the Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) project around table lookup algorithms, packet scheduling, traffic shaping and metering, flexible data plane frameworks, Soft NIC and most recently P4 language enablement for multi-core CPUs. He holds a BSc, MSc and PhD in Computer Science from University Politehnica of Bucharest.