Jay Mada

Jay Mada is currently a Senior Product Management within the Cisco Networking group at Cisco. He leads the Data Center Networking Product management portfolio, working with over 65 partners, and manages Cisco's strategic partnerships with major entities like Algosec, ServiceNow, RedHat, and HashiCorp. His role includes crafting go-to-market strategies and representing Cisco at tech partner events. Prior to his current position, Jaya was in charge of a broad product management portfolio for Cisco's data center networking, including flagship solutions such as Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) and Cisco Nexus Dashboard. He began his career as a TAC engineer at Cisco, focusing on Enterprise Switching and DataCenter Products. His experience extends to being a Network Consulting engineer, where he supported Cisco presales engineers in planning, designing, and implementing customer solutions across the data center portfolio. He also brings expertise in Open-stack environments as a Technical Marketing engineer and also in the Server virtualization group. He has worked on industry-leading virtual switches like Nexus 1000v, Application virtual Switch (AVS), Application Virtual Edge (AVE), and Virtual Pod Solutions. Jaya holds two prestigious CCIE certifications, one in Routing and Switching and the other in Data Center, and is sought after for his extensive expertise in these fields.