Aamir Yunus is a Senior Software Engineer in Enterprise Scale Enabling group at Intel Corporation. He joined Intel in 1999 after four years at Honeywell, Inc. He has extensive experience in performance optimization in a virtualized environment, specifically VMware ESX Server. He is the recipient of an Intel Achievement Award for the optimization of security algorithms on Intel processors. He earned his BSE in Computer Systems Engineering and MCS in Computer Science from Arizona State University in Tempe.