Gabi Zapodeanu

Gabriel Zapodeanu is a Principal Technical Marketing Engineer at Cisco Systems, specializing in Network Platforms, APIs and Integrations. Gabriel focuses on Catalyst Center and Meraki APIs architecture, event notification channels and integrations with third-party platforms including Splunk, PagerDuty, ServiceNow, and custom integrations. His expertise includes developer resources and automation libraries including Python SDK, Ansible, and Terraform. Gabriel publishes open-source integrations with Jenkins, GitHub, and GitLab while developing programmability technical content, Infrastructure-as-Code automation workflows, and sample code repositories for the networking community. Currently, Gabriel is exploring GenAI and Agentic AI innovations to simplify and unify controller-based network management, creating intelligent solutions that bridge traditional network operations with AI capabilities. He is a Cisco Live Hall of Fame Speaker and Master Series Speaker.