Summary
Jay Sharma is a Product Manager at Cisco with 8 years of experience advancing enterprise access switching, blending product strategy with a strong engineering background. He progressed from software engineer and technical marketing roles to lead software strategy for Cisco’s Catalyst portfolio, pairing hands-on automation and CI/CD experience with GTM enablement and competitive analysis. Comfortable translating deep technical requirements into sales-ready collateral and deployment guidance, he has a track record of automating testbeds and boosting product readiness. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area with an MEM from Duke and a B.Tech in Computer Science, Jay brings both technical rigor and cross-functional leadership to complex networking products. Less obvious: he has repeatedly driven process improvements and internal tooling—earning recognition for automating lab services that increased device utilization and cut test cycle time.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Engineering Management Engineering/Industrial Management, Masters of Engineering Management Engineering/Industrial Management at Duke University
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) Computer Science and Engineering at SRM IST Chennai
English, Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, Japanese