Nikolay Nikolaev is an Engineering Manager at Isovalent's Datapath team. For more than 20 years, he has been implementing networking software ranging from hardware boxes to powerful server applications and virtualized data planes. He spent some time in the virtualization world using and contributing to projects like KVM, QEMU, DPDK, and OpenStack. In recent years, Nikolay is actively contributing to the cloud-native domain in projects like Envoy, Network Service Mesh, Kuma and Cilium.