Lori Jakab has been tinkering with computer networks, servers and open source software since before the turn of the century. As a research engineer at Cisco, he is now busy bridging enterprise networks and the cloud. He served on the Technical Steering Committee of the OpenDaylight project, has been an active contributor to several other networking-focused open and closed source code bases, participated in large-scale operational network experiments, and has been a speaker at FOSDEM 2012 and 2021. Lori holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UPC/BarcelonaTECH.