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Ronak Desai

Ronak Desai

Founder & CEO — AI SRE Teammate; former SVP/GM, Cisco AppDynamics

Pleasanton, California
Joined August 2025

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Summary

Operator & founder who builds enterprise products at scale: Ronak transitioned from multi‑decade senior engineering leadership at Cisco—where he led data center networking and AppDynamics/Full‑Stack Observability—to founding Ciroos, an AI-native startup focused on reducing SRE toil. His recent work centers on shipping agentic, multi‑agent AI that integrates across observability, incident management and collaboration tooling. ciroos+2
Technical leader with deep networking and observability expertise: Public bios and Cisco Blog author pages document a long history of product and engineering leadership on networking platforms (NX‑OS, Nexus, ACI) and observability (AppDynamics). He has a record of leading complex, cross‑domain systems engineering efforts that power large enterprise products. cisco+1
Inventor and IP contributor: Ronak is a named inventor on dozens of patents related to networking, monitoring and automation—an indicator of hands‑on technical invention alongside product leadership. justia+1
Founder & channel-aware go‑to‑market leader: Ciroos’ early positioning emphasizes partner/channel friendliness and integrations with existing enterprise workflows (Prometheus, Datadog, Jira, Slack), reflecting Ronak’s experience at Cisco where partners are core to scale. ciroos+1

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Hiking and building (general outdoor/engineering interest noted on company/personal profiles). ciroos