About
Ronak Desai is co-founder and CEO of Ciroos, a company developing multi-agentic AI for IT investigation aimed at SRE, DevOps, and operations teams. He previously spent over 20 years at Cisco, including a role as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco Full-Stack Observability and AppDynamics. He holds 50 patents.
President and Chief Executive Officer at Ciroos
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Co-founders at Ciroos
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Amit PatelFounder
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Ananda RajagopalFounder
Experience
- CiroosCo-Founder and CEOcurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- CiscoSVP & GM AppDynamics and FSO2022 — 2024San Francisco Bay Area
- CiscoSenior Vice President2021 — 2022San Jose, California, United States
- sken.ai (acquired by Fortinet NASDAQ: FTNT)Investor/Advisor2019 — 2022
- CiscoVP Engineering2014 — 2021San Jose, CA
- Insieme Networks (acquired by Cisco)Sr. Director of Engineering and Founding employee2012 — 2013San Jose, CA
- Arista NetworksDirector and MTS2012United States
- Cisco SystemsDirector, Engineering2005 — 2011
- Andiamo Systems (acquired by Cisco)Technical Lead2002 — 2005
- Jasmine NetworksSr. Manager, Director, Engineering2001 — 2002
- Cisco SystemsTechnical Lead/Engineering Manager1996 — 2001San Jose, CA
Skills & more
FCoE8High Availability48Forwarding2IPC4Switches22VoIP4ATM1IP Networking2Fibre Channel12Ethernet57Cloud Computing42
Languages Gujarati, Hindi, English
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Ronak Desai?
- Ronak Desai is co-founder and CEO of Ciroos, a company developing multi-agentic AI for IT investigation aimed at SRE, DevOps, and operations teams. He previously spent over 20 years at Cisco, including a role as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco Full-Stack Observability and AppDynamics. He holds 50 patents.
- Where does Ronak Desai work?
- Ronak Desai is President and Chief Executive Officer of Ciroos.
- What companies did Ronak Desai found?
- Ronak Desai founded Ciroos.
- Where did Ronak Desai go to school?
- Ronak Desai studied at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (Master's degree, ECE); The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electronics And Communication).
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