Evangelist. Architect.
Builder. Creator.

With over 23 years of experience across networking, cybersecurity, cloud, and data center technologies, I currently serve as a Principal Architect (Director) for Cloud and Network Security at Cisco. My role spans strategy, innovation, evangelism, and architecture — driving the evolution of Cisco's cloud security portfolio and influencing product direction for solutions such as Secure Firewall, Multicloud Defense, Secure Workload, Hypershield, and Isovalent.

I operate at the intersection of technical leadership and product vision, helping define architectures, validated designs, and roadmaps, while driving innovation and shaping how organizations adopt secure, scalable, cloud-native security. I've contributed to double-digit growth in cloud security adoption and established strategic partnerships with AWS, Azure, and GCP.

As a recognized Cloud Security Evangelist, I actively engage with customers, analysts, and internal teams to track market trends and translate insights into actionable architectures. I'm passionate about simplifying complex security challenges through Cisco Validated Designs, whitepapers, blogs, competitive analysis, and public speaking.

I hold dual CCIE certifications in Security and Data Center (CCIE #21208), along with AWS Solutions Architect certifications. I'm also deeply invested in AI — building with GenAI, Agentic AI architectures, and RAG frameworks using Claude Code, Cursor, PyTorch, and LangChain.

Beyond Cisco, I create educational content on YouTube (1.3K subscribers) and contribute to the Cisco blog — continuing my mission to educate, lead, and inspire in cybersecurity.