As a product line manager with Palo Alto Networks, Apoorva Jain enables 5G mobile infrastructure security end-to-end in a cloud-native way on software next-gen firewalls. Apoorva is an advocate of bringing performance and scale to the VM and container-based network functions. In the years of his career within the telco and cloud space, he has worn multiple hats in engineering and received battle scars from interoperability and early field trials for 4G, to envisioning and orchestrating shiny new avatars of the good old chassis.