Rafal Jaworowski is a seasoned founder and engineer with nearly 20 years in embedded systems and high-performance networking. As founder of Plasteli.net, he is building a 400 Gbit/s SmartNIC that tightly integrates an FPGA-based hardware engine with Linux and DPDK software to enable intelligent offloading across cloud, finance, and telecom. Previously, he led Semihalf as CEO (and CTO earlier), forging partnerships with industry giants like Annapurna Labs, AWS, ARM, Google, and Xilinx. His early career includes a Sr Software Engineer role at Motorola and significant kernel work as a FreeBSD project committer. Based in Krakow, Poland, Rafal combines hands-on engineering with strategic leadership across startups and established players. He holds an MSc from the University of Lodz and brings a unique hardware-software co-design perspective to building scalable, high-throughput networking solutions.
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