Etienne holds bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from University Laval at Quebec and is currently a senior technical leader at Cisco Systems. He has over 15 years' mission critical Linux in telecom and space industry experience. His career has covered broad range of high performance / high availability hardware and software technologies, system level architecture and since 2008 a very special focus on the KVM hypervisor. He likes to work on complex and challenging problems but when not working, he likes to spend time with his family and during the night hack virtual machines or rebuild car engines.