With over 15 years of industry experience, Pankaj is currently a Senior Product Manager in the Security Business Group at Cisco, focusing on Firewall Management. He is driven by a deep passion for building exceptional products that create tangible value for customers. Prior to this, Pankaj spent his career driving product vision and strategy across enterprise B2B SaaS, XDR, compliance, and large-scale eCommerce platforms. His core mindset is rooted in the "Builder-PM" philosophy— he leans heavily on his engineering background and an MBA from Chicago Booth to bridge the gap between complex technical execution and practical customer solutions. Outside of work, Pankaj spends his free time tinkering with local AI infrastructure, benchmarking open-weight LLMs, and experimenting with new high-protein vegetarian recipes in the kitchen.