Ben Pfaff
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Engineer / Co-Founder
Redwood City, California, United States
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Principal ResearchervmwareJan 2020 - May 2023 (3 years 5 months)Continued to contribute to Open vSwitch and OVN projects that I co-founded. Participated in research projects in virtual networking, green computing, and other areas. Participated in and led cross-business unit initiatives that made recommendations to executives. Published research results internally and externally at academic conferences. Participated in and led parts of RADIO,VMware's internal academic conference. Led and served on the program committee for external academic and industry conferences. Mentored researchers, engineers, and interns inside VMware and students outside VMware. Volunteered for external charitable organizations.- Principal EngineervmwareAug 2012 - Jan 2020 (7 years 6 months)Joined via acquisition of my startup, Nicira. Continued to work on the Open vSwitch project that I founded at Nicira, and co-founded the OVN project.
- NSenior Staff EngineerNicira NetworksJun 2007 - Aug 2012 (5 years 3 months)Founding engineer at Nicira. Founded and led the Open vSwitch project and co-developed early specifications for OpenFlow.
- Engineer / Co-FounderFeldera
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- Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer ScienceStanford UniversityJan 2001 - Dec 2007 (7 years)
- Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical EngineeringMichigan State UniversityJan 1997 - Dec 2001 (5 years)
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- OOVNAug 2013 - Dec 2019 (6 years 5 months)Open Virtual Network that brings network virtualization to containers or virtual machines using Open vSwitch.
- OOpen vSwitchOct 2008 - Dec 2019 (11 years 3 months)The open source virtual switch for software and hardware-accelerated networking.
- GGNU PSPPSep 1994 - Current (31 years 10 months)Software for statistical analysis of sampled data.