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Susie Wee

SVP & CTO

Cisco DevNet Ecosystem Success

Susie is the Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Cisco DevNet Ecosystem Success, focused on accelerating the advancement of Cisco customers, partners, developers, and IT professionals as they innovate with Cisco platforms. She founded and leads DevNet, Cisco's developer program, which catalyzes innovations and accelerates automation and digital transformation in the industry. Under Susie’s leadership, DevNet has grown to a global community of over 500,000 developers, a vibrant ecosystem of DevNet software and solutions partners, and has created professional DevNet certifications for the industry.

Prior to her current role, Susie was the Vice President and Chief Technology and Experience Officer of Cisco’s Collaboration Technology Group. She was responsible for driving innovation and experience design in Cisco's collaboration products and software services, including unified communications, telepresence, web and video conferencing, and cloud collaboration. Before joining Cisco, Susie was Vice President of Experience Software Business and CTO at Hewlett Packard.

Susie served as the co-editor of the JPSEC standard for the security of JPEG-2000 images and as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits, Systems and Video Technology and IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. While serving as Lab Director at HP Labs, Susie was also a consulting assistant professor at Stanford University where she co-taught a graduate-level course on digital video processing.

Susie received Technology Review’s Top 100 Young Innovators award, ComputerWorld's Top 40 Innovators under 40 award, the Red Dot Design Concept award for augmented collaboration, the INCITs Technical Excellence award, the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame award, and was on the Forbes Most Powerful Women list. She is an IEEE Fellow for her contributions in multimedia technology and has authored over 50 international publications and 57 granted patents.

She currently serves on the board of directors for Analog Devices, a leading global high-performance analog technology company dedicated to solving the toughest engineering challenges. She is also an active mentor and member of the International Women’s Forum (IWF) Leadership Foundation, which supports the women leaders of today and tomorrow.

Susie received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Articles

March 30, 2021

DEVELOPER

Cisco DevNet Helps You Architect for Agility with Infrastructure as Code and SASE

6 min read

Find the tools and learning resources to help your teams transform, and your businesses become more agile, in the new Cisco DevNet Developer Centers.

March 25, 2021

PARTNER

How Cisco Partners Enable Customer Agility with DevNet

4 min read

Cisco partners have been skilling up their teams to lead in software and automation with DevNet. They are making sure they will have the capabilities to anticipate the needs of their customers – many of whom are themselves heavily investing in digital transformation.

February 24, 2021

DEVELOPER

Celebrating the One-Year Anniversary of DevNet Certifications

2 min read

Congratulations DevNet Class of 2020. In just one year, over 8,000 of you have earned your DevNet certification. Now, you have the power to turn your software and automation skills into real-world solutions.

December 21, 2020

DEVELOPER

Five Ways You Can Make 2021 Your Year with DevNet

3 min read

2021 is a year of all new opportunities to grow your skills, make automation real, and explore new possibilities with DevNet.

December 15, 2020

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Software Skills Give Network Pros Super Powers

3 min read

Add software skills to your networking teams' toolkits to help them solve your most important challenges.

November 20, 2020

DEVELOPER

Flip the Script: Get DevNet Certified in 2020

4 min read

Earn your DevNet certification in 2020 and be forever recognized as a leader in this fast growing, high achieving field that is bringing together software development and DevOps practices with programmable networks and infrastructure.

October 28, 2020

DEVELOPER

How DevNet Can Be a Catalyst for Partners

4 min read

See how DevNet's Walk-Run-Fly journey is helping Cisco partners succeed and scale by leveraging automation, programmability, software, and APIs.

October 19, 2020

DEVELOPER

Business Resilience Today

4 min read

Learn about best practices for security and business resiliency in a “work from anywhere” world. Watch Susie Wee's conversation with Cisco’s Chief Information Security Officer, Mike Hanley.

October 12, 2020

DEVELOPER

At DevNet Create, Innovation Starts With You

2 min read

Automation makes anything possible. And DevNet is here for you with the tools, resources, certifications, and a half million member strong community to help you out and cheer you on.