Kevin Benton is currently a Software Engineer at Mirantis. He has been contributing to Neutron since Havana while he was working at Big Switch Networks and has been a core reviewer since 2014. He also serves on the Neutron drivers team, helping the PTL define the direction of the project by selecting features to work on. He prefers to spend time improving the stability and performance of Neutron and its reference implementation to give deployers reliable OpenStack networking without immediately turning to a vendor.