Ty Thorsen
Senior Vice President Of Engineering at Cisco
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTy Thorsen is a senior technology executive who leads Cisco’s global engineering organization for the Collaboration Group, overseeing Webex SaaS and on‑prem products across meetings, calling, contact center, CPaaS and AI agents. With 20+ years of experience taking products from inception to tens of millions of daily users, he combines deep technical, product and business expertise in unified communications, VoIP, video and cloud services. Ty has a proven record of transforming teams and culture—building high‑performing, globally distributed organizations and modernizing legacy products into scalable SaaS offerings. His current focus blends next‑generation cloud architectures, AI‑driven customer experiences and enterprise‑grade security for consumer and public sector deployments. An electrical engineering graduate from the University of Washington, he began his career at a Seattle startup that became part of Cisco, giving him rare end‑to‑end perspective from hardware and embedded systems to full‑stack cloud services. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who pairs hands‑on engineering judgment with strategic product leadership.
11 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical Engineering, BS Electrical Engineering at University of Washington
Github Skills (10)
angularjs7
agile7
lts5
javascript5
angularjs-material5
material-ui4
angular4
materialize4
material-design3
docker1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
tythorsen/planning-poker
Feb 2015 - Sep 2018
Contributions:64 commits, 19 PRs, 68 pushes in 3 years 8 months
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britanniareo/britanniareo.github.io
Jan 2015 - Jan 2018
Contributions:4 PRs, 46 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 1 month
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