Having come from a varied software engineering background Fiona Trahe now focuses on open source software. A key contributor to DPDK’s compressdev and cryptodev APIs, she won a DPDK Innovation award in 2018. As maintainer of the Poll Mode Driver for Intel QuickAssist she evolved it to a multi-service, multi-device-generation driver. She’s brought that experience into the Intel team which upstreams QuickAssist drivers to the Linux kernel and the qatlib user-space libraries to github.