Prashant Bhatnagar
✦ Solution Engineering ✦ Principal Technical Leader ✦ Generative-AI Expert ✦ Business Transformation with Advanced AI & Cloud Innovations ✦ Customer Advocate ✦ Quicken Sales Cycles. ✦ Trusted Advisor
- Role
- Worldwide Ai Solutions Engineer at Cisco
- Location
- Santa Clara, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Prashant Bhatnagar
Imagine an F-500 wants from you scaling its customer support ops with exceptional service quality. You’re challenged with integrating AI and Cloud solutions to streamline processes for productivity. Where do you start? Without a clear plan, solution, scalability, and transforming support teams, it seems impossible. That’s where I come in. Who am I?I am an entrepreneurial and award-winning leader with >20 years delivering cutting-edge AI and Cloud transformation solutions. I specialize in helping large enterprises turn complex technical challenges into scalable, ops workhorses. With a track record of securing huge contracts, I bridge the gap between business needs and technology to drive sustainable growth. What I do: I engage with customer stakeholders, including CXOs, and can derive specific ROIs and business needs. I engage with customer champions, quantify the pain, and influence solution advancement with Business and Finance leaders.I lead multi-disciplinary teams to Architect bespoke AI & Cloud solutions. My hands-on technical program governance expertise helps me deliver PoCs, AI Solutions, Cloud migrations, and BPAs that can scale for rapid business growth. Finally, I ensure customer satisfaction by driving innovative strategies, exceeding expectations, and providing tangible ROI. My Results: I led a Gen-AI strategy for a top networking co, achieving 95% AI response accuracy and securing a large $$ contract. Led development of secure network slicing automation use cases for Telcos with IBM products for network automation and security, resulting in $3M+ ESA contract.Designed and solutioned scalable AI visual inspection solutions, leading to a new product use-case. Led technical sales team of +50 Oracle and SAP ERP clients and drove >$250M in deals with Cloud innovations.Delivered a unified cloud migration solution for Baker Hughes, securing a $12M deal and reducing migration timelines by 40%. My Defining Skills:* Customers: Architectural thought leadership on customers apps/products to transform status-quo.* AI Evangelist: Leverage industry AI patterns & discuss customer AI implementation strategies.* Edge: Articulate value differentiators to drive competitive edge. Leverage product ROI.* Teams: Mobilize crack SE teams; w/ a teamed culture. Mentor to scale.* Collaboration: Integrate with Partners/SIs. Deliver the exceptional. Conversation Starters, I: Hike 7-8 miles on weekend. Have published songs. Have a puppy named \"Lassi.\" Recently travelled to Iceland/Alaska. Am a Toastmasters DTM.
Experience
Worldwide Ai Solutions Engineer
Jun 2025 — Present
Education
San José State University
MBA, Business Administration and Management
1999 — 2001
Amravati University
Computer Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin
Post Graduate Program in Data Science and Business Analytics
2021
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