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Mike Dvorkin is a recognized thought leader in policy driven automation and operations. Mike’s work focus is on policy abstraction models and intent-based nonlinear automation methods applied to all aspects of infrastructure, applications and operations. He is a founder of Noiro project at Cisco focusing on bringing policy abstraction to open source compute and networking stacks. Prior to Noiro Mike was a co-founder and chief scientist of Insieme Networks where he was responsible for conceptualization of the policy layer that is now part of Cisco ACI/APIC. Before Insieme, as part of the early engineering team at Nuova Systems, he was the architect behind the management and control plane of UCS server platform, the first intent-defined server platform. Prior to Nuova Mike held a number senior technical positions at infrastructure startups. Mike holds a degree in Computer Science from University of Illinois in Urbana/Champaign.