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Puneet Kamal

Leader, Product Management

AI Software & Platform

Puneet Kamal is a Product Leader at Cisco where he bridges bleeding-edge research and turnkey applications. An inventor at heart with a track record of turning ambitious ideas into production-grade systems, he spearheaded Cisco's first purpose-trained networking LLM - the Deep Network Model. Before Cisco, Puneet delivered transformative AI/ML outcomes at Cruise, where he engineered systems that dramatically improved autonomous vehicle reliability and unlocked capabilities like driving in inclement weather, and at Amazon, where he built semantic intelligence frameworks powering product discovery at Amazon scale. With deep expertise spanning LLM agents and evaluation, multi-agent orchestration, and enterprise AI strategy, he's passionate about building intelligent systems that automate complex operational challenges and deliver measurable business impact.

Cisco Deep Network Model: Purpose built intelligence for networking

6 min read

This blog was written in collaboration with Yuqing Gao, Jian Tan, Fan Bu, Ali Dabir, Hamid Amini, Doosan Jung, Yury Sokolov, Lei Jin, and Derek Engi. LLMs can sound very convincing, but in network operations, sounding right isn’t enough. Network operations are dominated by structured telemetry, long configuration states, time series at scale, and investigations […]