Jai Prakash Shukla

Jai Prakash joined Cisco in 2000 as an engineer working on the Catalyst 6000 product. Later on he moved to Nexus engineering and then to product management of Nexus switching products, where he was responsible for Nexus software for N5K/N2K and N6K including technologies like Fabric Path and Dynamic Fabric Automation. As a Sr. Director, he led Product Management and Technical Marketing of Big Cloud Fabric and Multi-Cloud Director at Big Switch Networks. Later on Big Switch Networks was acquired by Arista Networks. His second tenure at Cisco started in early 2020 in SD-WAN with responsibility of SD-WAN Manager, Analytics and CloudOps. He holds an engineering degree in electronics & telecommunications, and an MBA from Santa Clara University.