He is currently based out of Durham, North Carolina. He holds a Masters in Computers Science from the University of New Hampshire and spent time at the UNH Interoperability Laboratory. Allen is currently focused on developing system level software for storage and networking products which include Hyper Converged Infrastructure. Allen’s focus has been around transforming EMC’s proprietary software features to leverage OSS and to contribute these features back to the community. Allen most recently partnered with Intel Corporation to contribute significant NTB changes to kernel 4.2 and is currently seeking to contribute additional features to abstract Intel DMA transfers using an RDMA/Verbs interface.