Summary
Gabriel Zapodeanu is a Principal Technical Marketing Engineer at Cisco with over 25 years in networking and a decade focused on technical marketing and developer enablement. He specializes in network programmability, API architecture, and integrations across Cisco DNA Center, Python SDKs, Ansible, Terraform and CI/CD tooling, driving product features and partner ecosystems. A patent-pending AI innovator and repeat Cisco Live distinguished speaker, he blends deep systems engineering roots with go-to-market storytelling and hands-on developer tooling. Based in Sherwood, Oregon, he has a track record of winning internal hackathons and building bridge solutions to ServiceNow, PagerDuty and collaboration platforms that aren’t obvious from titles alone. His academic background in ECE complements a career that spans field engineering, solutions architecture and senior technical marketing leadership inside a global networking leader.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, ECE, 4.89, Master's degree, ECE, 4.89 at Oregon Graduate Institute
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Electronics and Telecommunications, 4.22, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Electronics and Telecommunications, 4.22 at Gheorghe Asachi University
Romanian, French