[4] While at LLNL, he ran large-scale computer simulations for the United States Department of Defense.
His Ph.D. thesis, "Architectural Support for Security Management in Enterprise Networks,” under advisors Nick McKeown, Scott Shenker and Dan Boneh, was published in 2008.
[7] His Ph.D. work at Stanford University led to the development of the OpenFlow protocol, which was promoting using the term software-defined networking (SDN).
[10] McKeown and Shenker co-founded the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) in 2011 to transfer control of OpenFlow to a not-for-profit organization.
[14] Casado left VMware and joined venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz in February 2016 as its ninth general partner.