Where does Ronak Desai work?

Ronak Desai is President and Chief Executive Officer of 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).

Ronak Desai

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President and Chief Executive Officer at Ciroos

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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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Ciroos's investors · 1

Energy Impact PartnersNew York · $5M – $20M checks · since 2025

Co-founders at Ciroos

Amit PatelFounder

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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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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