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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.

Articles

April 2, 2019

DEVELOPER

#CiscoChat LIVE: Cisco Partner Innovation Challenge 2019

2 min read

The Cisco Partner Innovation Challenge is designed to drive awareness and adoption of Cisco Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) across our global partner community.

February 13, 2019

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Learning to Discover, Contain, and Combat a Zero-Day Attack!

2 min read

DevNet Express Event gets attendees hands-on with Cisco Security APIs - Firepower, Threat Grid, Advanced Malware Protection for endpoints, and Identity Services.

November 14, 2018

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How DevOps Changed My (Work) Life

6 min read

A new world of opportunities was opening in front of me! I wanted to learn all this stuff on DevOps, network programmability. I got addicted.

September 10, 2018

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How a Service Mesh Helps Your Modern Applications – DevOps Series, Part 11

2 min read

Istio helps DevOps teams implement modern, microservices-based applications with containers, run them at scale, and integrates beautifully with Kubernetes.

July 25, 2018

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Testing Locally Like You Were on a Remote Environment – DevOps Series, Part 10

4 min read

See how you can do live testing of a service locally, while connected to a remote k8s cluster.

July 10, 2018

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Hide the Complexity of Building/Deploying your Applications on Kubernetes – DevOps Series, Part 9

3 min read

Learn how a tool like "Draft" hides the complexity of building images, and deploying them into a Kubernetes (k8s) cluster. So you can focus on your code.

June 20, 2018

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Using CI/CD/CD for Software Lifecycle Automation – DevOps Series, Part 8

1 min read

New DevNet Learning Lab shows you how to create a pipeline for your modern, microservices-based applications. See automation working on your own software changes.

May 30, 2018

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Fast and Furious (and Easy) Kubernetes Deployments – DevOps Series, Part 7

4 min read

Managing application life-cycle can get really complex when working with microservices. Helm is a tool that packages required microservices, and makes it easier to start/stop them as per required dependencies.

May 24, 2018

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On-Prem vs. Public Cloud Deployments Differences & Similarities – DevOps Series, Part 6

2 min read

There are differences and similarities between on-prem and Cloud deployments, and you can leverage common knowledge in both environments.