Neelanjan Kayal

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ABOUT NEELANJAN KAYAL

I advise our largest EMEA Channel Partners on establishing their Observability Practices and GTM Strategies. 8+ years in Channel/Presales Architect roles.Observability, APM, Software/Automation, SDWAN, Multicloud/DC and Enterprise Infra/IoT.12+ years in customer-facing roles at Cisco, across EMEA and APJC.Experienced in Programming/Software Dev, Consulting, Presales/Solution Architecture and Channel Strategy.As a Partner Solutions Architect at Cisco, I help design, present, demo/POV and sell Cisco\'s Full-Stack Observability solutions. In my previous roles, I\'ve helped our partners across APJC (Asia-Pacific, Japan & China) with SDWAN, ThousandEyes and DC/Multicloud technologies. I created, led and managed the Cisco Black Belt Partner Academy (Data Center), which is Cisco\'s unique global channel enablement framework. Prior to that, I was a Network Consulting Engineer at Cisco Advanced Services for 4 years, advising our Global Enterprise customers with designing, assessing, optimizing and automating their networks/infrastructure across Routing, Switching, Software and Data Center domains.I take a keen interest in AI/Machine Learning, IoT, Digitization, PenTesting, Blockchains and Big Data. In my spare time, I enjoy ideating and rapidly prototyping Gen AI solutions.“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don\'t believe in magic will never find it.” – Roald Dahl