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Julio Gomez

Principal Engineer, AI & Quantum

Office of the CTO

Julio is Principal Engineer at the Office of the CTO in EMEA, where he leads transformative projects that leverage AI/ML, Quantum, and APIs to elevate infrastructure capabilities and strengthen Cisco’s strategic offerings. With a distinguished career spanning decades, Julio has held multiple technical roles across service provider, data center, and core routing domains, giving him a comprehensive perspective on networking and infrastructure. Julio combines a structured, strategic mindset and a unique blend of technical expertise—including CCIE #9302, AWS Architect, and DevNet Professional certifications—with strong business development acumen. With extensive cross-functional leadership experience across multiple geographies, he is committed to technology, business innovation, and effective change management. Known for his analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills, Julio excels at driving results and fostering collaboration. Above all, he is passionate about working with clients, partners, and business leaders to understand their objectives—sparking creativity and innovation in every project.

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July 13, 2026

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Harvest Now, Decrypt Later: The Threat to Key Exchange – Quantum Series, Part 2

4 min read

We zoom in on key exchange and its urgent "harvest now, decrypt later" threat, where attackers record encrypted traffic today to decrypt once quantum hardware matures. Then we meet the two contenders: classical Diffie-Hellman and post-quantum ML-KEM.

July 7, 2026

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Is Your VPN Ready for the Quantum Era? – Quantum Series, Part 1

5 min read

Quantum computers will break today's crypto. We introduce the two pillars of a secure handshake, key exchange and auth, and how each faces a different quantum threat: "harvest now, decrypt later" versus the slower risk to long-lived trust anchors.

June 30, 2021

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Integration with Chuck Norris and Meraki APIs – ChatOps Series, Part 4

5 min read

Learn how you can start working with the Meraki API to create a chatbot that tells users about the Meraki networks they manage.

June 16, 2021

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Message Details – ChatOps Series, Part 3

5 min read

Learn about "ChatOps" - operating infrastructure systems with bots via messaging applications. In Part 3 of the series, learn how to obtain all details about messages received from your ChatBot.

June 2, 2021

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Defining Your Bot Logic – ChatOps Series, Part 2

4 min read

Get the code required to implement your bot logic for operating infrastructure systems via messaging applications.

May 20, 2021

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Using a Bot to Operate Your Network!? – ChatOps Series, Part 1

3 min read

Operating infrastructure systems with bots via messaging applications is what we call ChatOps. Learn why ChatOps is a foundational block for network operations, AI, and Natural Language Processing.

July 15, 2020

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Explore Serverless with Fission – DevOps Series, Part 19

3 min read

Serverless is here to stay and nobody likes lock-in! So check out the full blog series to get a good understanding on how to get started with several different FaaS engines over kubernetes.

July 7, 2020

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Serverless with Kubeless – DevOps Series, Part 18

2 min read

Explore Kubeless, another interesting FaaS runtime engine, in this installment of the series that gets you hands-on with serverless.

June 30, 2020

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Serverless with OpenFaaS – DevOps Series, Part 17

3 min read

Get hands-on experience with OpenFaaS, a popular FaaS over kubernetes engine. OpenFaaS is easy to deploy, k8s friendly, and a great starting point with templates to deploy your own code.