Shahzad Ali is part of Cloud and Networking Services Product Management Team. He is currently involved in marketing, managing and selling Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) and Cisco Application Virtual Switch (AVS) products in SDN and Virtual Networking areas. In the past he worked as Technical Marketing Engineer for Unified Communication Systems, Data Center Automation and Virtualization Solution (CIAC and Desktop Virtualization). And he has been instrumental in large system level network designs and driving the strategy for Cloud Automation & Orchestration, Desktop Virtualization, Unified Communications and Unified Contact Center Enterprise. He has authored many documents, SRND/CVD, network architecture white-papers and implementation guides for larger enterprise and service provider customers. Biography from communities: Shahzad Ali is a Technical Marketing Engineer at Cisco. He is responsible for system-level network designs and strategy. He defines best practices for virtualized and non-virtualized Data Center Solutions. Previously, he worked as a QA Team Lead in and also worked in Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC), supporting complex IP networks. Shahzad holds a double CCIE certification in Voice and Routing & Switching tracks. He has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Systems Engineering and a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering. Expertise: Product Management Product Marketing Technical Marketing