Leads Cisco Networking’s AI/ML product strategy, vision, roadmap, and scalable data platform development. Directs and mentors product managers while partnering with engineering, design, go-to-market, and Cisco’s central AI team. Engages enterprise customers, identifies AI-driven solutions to networking and digital experience challenges, and guides development of native AI/ML capabilities across networking products.

Responsible for maintaining FedRAMP-compliant infrastructure, collaborating with software engineers, and ensuring system availability and security. Duties include infrastructure design, automation, monitoring, and incident response.

Design, deploy, and operate large-scale, multi-region cloud-native services to improve reliability, performance, and security. Partner with application teams to build automation, run SLO-driven incident response and on-call rotations, leverage Kubernetes and CNCF tooling, and implement scalable operations, chaos and scale testing, and infrastructure-as-code for a resilient SaaS platform.