10 Cisco engineering leaders

Experience: Vice President, Engineeering · Cisco

Arun Arunkumar has been Vice President, Engineeering at Cisco since May 2020, responsible for Data Center Switching Solutions for ACI and NX-OS Fabrics. The profile also lists Senior Director, Engineering, Data Center Switching (2018–2020), Senior Director, Engineering, Cloud Ready Networks (2017–2018) and Senior Director, SD-WAN (2016–2017) at Cisco.

Experience: Sr. Director, Engineering, Chief Technology and Architecture Office · Cisco

Bart Van de Velde has been Sr. Director, Engineering, Chief Technology and Architecture Office at Cisco since April 2014, as a member of the CTO and Architecture Team reporting to Cisco's CTO and Chief Architect, with a focus on SDN, network programmability, network architecture, VPN evolution, orchestration and security. The profile also lists Director, Business Development at Cisco (2011–2014).

Experience: Vice President of Engineering, Wireless and Cisco Spaces · Cisco

Chris O'Rourke has been Vice President of Engineering, Wireless and Cisco Spaces at Cisco since April 2022. The profile also lists Senior Director of Engineering, Security Policy and Access (2018–2022), Principal Engineer, Security Business Group (2015–2018) and Technical Leader II (2007–2010) at Cisco.

Experience: Vice President of Engineering · Cisco

Didi Dotan has been Vice President of Engineering at Cisco since January 2026 and was Senior Director of Software Engineering at Cisco from 2023 to 2026. The profile also lists Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of Oort (now part of Cisco) (2021–2023) and Director of Engineering, Asset & Identity Services at Cisco (2020–2021).

Experience: Vice President Of Engineering · Cisco

Jimit Mehta has been Vice President Of Engineering at Cisco since April 2022, and the profile headline places the role on the IOS-XE Catalyst Engineering Team. It also lists Senior Director Of Software Development (2020–2022), Engineering Leader At Cisco (2018–2020) and Director Of Engineering (2014–2018) at Cisco.

Experience: VP of Engineering · Cisco

Manish Mukherjee has been VP of Engineering at Cisco since January 2024, and the profile headline describes the role as VP of Engineering, Cisco Silicon One Software. It also lists Senior Director, Cisco Silicon One Software (2022–2024), Senior Director Software Engineering, Enterprise BU (2018–2022) and Director Software Engineering, Service Provider BU (2016–2018) at Cisco.

Experience: VP of Engineering · Cisco

Mark Threefoot has been VP of Engineering at Cisco since May 2025, leading the global DevOps organization for the AI Software and Platform Group with a focus on platform reliability. The profile also lists VP of SRE DevOps - Prisma Cloud at Palo Alto Networks (2021–2025) and VP of Engineering, Cloud Delivery at MobileIron (2018–2021).

Experience: Vice President of Engineering · Cisco

Salman Hasan has been Vice President of Engineering at Cisco since May 2022, leading software engineering and quality assurance for Cisco's Unified Computing Systems (UCS) business unit, an organization of 850+ engineers in the US, Bangalore and Shanghai. The profile also lists Senior Director of Software Engineering (2019–2022) and Director Software (2015–2019) at Cisco.

Experience: VP, Engineering · Cisco

Soumya Viswanathan has been VP, Engineering at Cisco since October 2021, an engineering leader in the Mass-Scale Infrastructure Group responsible for platform independent IOS-XR. The profile also lists Senior Director, Engineering at Cisco (2018–2021) and Senior Director, Software Engineering at Juniper Networks (2011–2015).

Experience: Vice President of Engineering · Cisco

Tony Jeffs has been Vice President of Engineering at Cisco since August 2022, overseeing development lab operations, product and enterprise security, and software QA. The profile also lists Sr. Director of Information Security (2020–2022) and Senior Director, Engineering Security & Privacy Research (2016–2020) at Cisco.