Amit Patel is the Vice President of Engineering at Cisco Full-Stack Observability and AppDynamics where he drives strategy, efforts and delivery across the product portfolio.

Prior to joining AppDynamics in February 2023, he was VP of Engineering for Cisco’s Cloud Networking Team, where he led the engineering team responsible for Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (NDFC) and Cloud ACI product lines. Over the past 20+ years prior to his VP role in Cloud Networking, Amit has been the engineering lead of several successful networking, cloud and storage data center product lines at Cisco.

Before joining Cisco through the Insieme acquisition, Amit was part of the co-founding engineering team at Avi Networks (acquired by VMWare) responsible for data path architecture for Avi Load Balancer product line.