Alan is a Principal Software Engineering Manager in the Azure for Operators group at Microsoft, which he joined through the acquisition of Metaswitch Networks.  Alan has spent 15 years working on IP networking, covering all the weird and wonderful ways that data gets sent around the world wide web.  His current focus is on high performance packet processing in software.  Outside of work Alan loves the outdoors and you will often find him out on his mountain bike getting muddy or running around in some hills.