Summary
James Wei is an experienced engineering program manager and technical leader with over two decades of delivery across networking and cloud-native software, now leading NPI engineering programs in Fremont. He has driven large, cross-functional teams across the US, India, China and Italy to ship complex systems like Cisco Crosswork Cloud, SDN controllers, and large-scale CI/CD pipelines while balancing scope, budget, and quality. A practitioner of both Agile and Waterfall, he blends hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, Kafka, gRPC, Prometheus, and container tooling with formal credentials including PMP, CSM and Stanford project management training. His background spans deep systems work—from Intel microprocessor software to L3VPN, PKI and VoIP—giving him rare breadth across low-level architectures and cloud-scale operations. Colleagues rely on his proven track record of program execution, risk control, and vendor orchestration, and he brings an engineer’s curiosity evidenced by sustained technical leadership at Cisco and across multiple major networking vendors.
9 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Engineering, Ph.D. Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology