Stephen has been actively involved with Linux kernel development for over 10 years. He has contributed several network device drivers, a network emulator, and is the maintainer of the bridging and iproute2utilities. After leaving LF, he went on to Vyatta (now acquired by Brocade) where he helped develop their open source router operating system. In his current position at Brocade, he is actively involved in design and development of the high performance vRouter using the DPDK.