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Vijoy Pandey

Senior Vice President
Outshift by Cisco
Vijoy Pandey is GM and Senior Vice President of Outshift by Cisco, leading the company's internal incubation engine that delivers what's next and new for Cisco. Outshift focuses on emerging technologies that target adjacent markets and personas, with current initiatives spanning AI-enabled infrastructure, quantum networking and security, and next-generation infrastructure solutions.
Outshift operates as a series of startup-like teams inside Cisco, rapidly validating which emerging technologies can become meaningful businesses for the company's future. Under Vijoy's leadership, these teams work across three key layers: AI-native applications, secure agent platforms, and quantum-safe infrastructure. This model allows Outshift to move quickly and test multiple opportunities simultaneously while leveraging Cisco's enterprise strengths and established processes.
Vijoy oversees a broader strategic scope that includes several critical Cisco-wide initiatives. He also leads Cisco Research, driving foundational research across quantum networking, security, observability, and emerging technologies. He directs Cisco's Open Source initiatives and the Developer Network (DevNet), which leads API consistency and programmability across Cisco's portfolio while pioneering AI-native infrastructure tools. Additionally, he co-chairs Cisco's Responsible AI committee.
Vijoy holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Davis, and is an inventor on over 80 patents in cloud computing, AI/ML, and distributed systems. Through his leadership of Outshift, Vijoy continues to guide Cisco's exploration of emerging technologies, ensuring the company can move quickly to capture opportunities in new markets before they fully mature.
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Cisco Announces Open Source Cloud-Native Offerings for Securing Modern Applications
4 min read
Today at KubeCon, Cisco announced FunctionClarity - a new open source project which helps developers secure the serverless functions that fundamentally reduce the amount of code necessary to create and deploy cloud-native applications. FunctionClarity is part of OpenClarity, a trio of open source projects which help solve problems around application security, and the software supply chain.
Meet Cisco at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2021!
4 min read
The ability to program a massive application by piecing together services gives us incredible flexibility. But it also presents new problems, from API security to observability. Join Vijoy at KubeCon to discuss this challenge and to introduce APIClarity, a new open source program supported by Cisco.
Enabling Application Development Velocity in an API-first World
5 min read
For businesses that adopt a robust application development ecosystem—with integral API connectivity and security—the new application imperative can be a significant competitive advantage.
A Cloud Native Network for a Holographic KubeCon EU
3 min read
A new holographic video conferencing application makes its debut, as the Network Service Mesh (NSM) community demonstrates how to make networking cloud native.
The Evolving Cloud-Native Infrastructure
5 min read
At Cisco, we have been thinking through what connectivity looks like to the application developer and platform engineer. The cloud-native Network would connect all such service endpoints, and only those endpoints, wherever they happen to be and in whatever form – as modern cloud-native, or traditional monolithic systems.