Bio
Alfredo Cardigliano is a high-performance software specialist, working as Principal Engineer at ntop, where he leads the development of network monitoring technologies. In the past 6+ years at ntop he matured strong experience in network programming, kernel hacking and device drivers. Alfredo’s current interests include the development of high-performance network monitoring and inline packet processing applications based on commodity hardware. He received his master degree at the University of Pisa with a thesis about packet capture acceleration for network monitoring on Virtual Machines. He also spent a few months at the Uppsala University where he gained experience with modern multi-core architectures.