Christopher Paggen
Director Of EMEA Cloud AI Systems Engineering at Cisco
Brussels Metropolitan Area Belgium
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Top SchoolChristopher Paggen is a seasoned cloud and data center technology leader with 12+ years of experience bridging engineering, product and customer needs across Europe and Silicon Valley. As Director of EMEA Cloud AI Systems Engineering at Cisco, he leads 90+ specialists shaping GTM strategy, technical vision and readiness for cloud, AI and networking solutions. His background as a Distinguished Engineer and product leader spans network programmability, data center security, SDN and multi-cloud internetworking, grounded in hands-on automation work (e.g., Python tooling for Nexus 9000). An author with six US patents and a book on LAN security, he combines deep technical credibility (CCIE, VMware VCP) with a customer-first instinct and a knack for translating complex architectures into practical, investable roadmaps. Notably, he refreshes his technical edge through constant reading and experimentation—often packing multiple tech books even on family vacations.
12 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
First year of Masters in Business Administration program, MBA/Business, First year of Masters in Business Administration program, MBA/Business at University of LiègeMS, Economics, MS, Economics at Université de Mons-HainautBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at HELMo
French, English, Dutch
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
nxos10
xml10
network-automation10
python10
scripting10
cli10
cisco9
network-configuration8
networking8
jenkins6
hashicorp-sentinel6
terraform-cloud6
terraform6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
datacenter/nexus9000
Nov 2013 - May 2016
Nexus 9000
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily contributed to the development of Python scripts for Cisco Nexus 9000 series switches. Their work focused on creating tools to interact with the command-line interface (CLI) and XML outputs, specifically for retrieving and displaying transceiver and CDP neighbor information. The user modified existing code, updated licensing, and refactored scripts to improve efficiency and add exception handling. These changes demonstrate an understanding of network device automation and scripting.
nexus
cpaggen/aci
Jul 2016 - Aug 2020
Contributions:4 commits, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
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