Nicolas Jacques
VP, Product Management at Cisco
Menlo Park, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicolas Jacques is a technology and go-to-market executive who has spent two decades orchestrating product, marketing, and open-source strategies across networking, cloud-native, and security domains. Currently VP of Product Management at Cisco, he leads technical marketing and GTM for the ~$10B switching portfolio, aligning engineering, product, and channels around a unified technical roadmap. He previously scaled GTM and community at eBPF leader Isovalent and drove marketing for Dagger, reflecting deep involvement in open-source infrastructure projects like Cilium, Kubernetes, OpenDaylight and SuzieQ. A hands-on operator and board-level advisor, he has repeatedly helped startups find product-market fit and achieve exits while also coaching teams as a youth cycling coach and nonprofit board director. Known for blending strategic vision with pragmatic execution, he often translates complex open-source technology into measurable commercial outcomes. Based in Menlo Park, he pairs an MBA-backed business perspective with a developer-centric appreciation for the projects he evangelizes.
5 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.F.S.), Bachelor of Science (B.S.F.S.) at Georgetown UniversityMBA Finance + Marketing, MBA Finance + Marketing at The University of Chicago Booth School of BusinessHS HS, HS HS at Choate Rosemary Hall
French, English
Github Skills (31)
continuous-deployment10
dagger10
caching10
docker10
continuous-integration10
continuous-testing10
continuous-delivery10
devcontainer10
ai10
graphql10
buildkit10
devops10
ebpf9
monitoring9
bpf9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Neelajacques/cilium
Aug 2020 - Aug 2020
eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
securityebpfnetworkingobservabilitynetwork-monitoring
Neelajacques/dagger
Jul 2024 - Jul 2024
An engine to run your pipelines in containers
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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