Leon Ward has spent over ten years in "day jobs" working closely with both open source and proprietary network security tools. Following years of experience of helping to design and deploy large intrusion prevention deployments, he decided to focus on trying to advance the products themselves. While working as Director of Product Management at Sourcefire, he became responsible for network detection technologies including the famous Snort open source intrusion prevention engine. OpenFPC was started is a spare time "passion" project for Leon (read "not his day job") that enables him to stay knee-deep in packets and code.