Dino Farinacci

Dino Farinacci is a software engineer by trade and a technologist advancing the state of the art for the next-generation Internet. He holds over 40 patents and has been a major contributor and member of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) for 28 years. If you can name an Internet protocol, there is a good chance Dino has designed and implemented it in widely deployed products over his career working at the NSA, CDC, 3Com, Pocket, and Cisco. Dino became one of the first Cisco Fellows in the late 90s and held that position through 2012.