Lila Rousseaux

Lila Rousseaux is a Principal Solutions Engineer with Cisco’s Americas Networking team, with over 20 years of experience across enterprise networks, automation, and large-scale architectures. Her work focuses on helping organizations move from traditional network operations to modern, AI-driven platforms, with a strong emphasis on AIOps and emerging Agentic Ops models. Lila joined Cisco in Argentina in 1999 and relocated to Toronto in 2002, where she is now based. She has worked closely with Service Providers, Enterprises, Partners, and Commercial customers, and is known as a trusted advisor within Cisco’s Enterprise Networking and Cloud Management teams. Much of her role involves connecting real customer challenges to architectural decisions and influencing product direction—particularly around controller-based automation and AI-enabled operations. A CCIE since 2001, Lila holds a Computer Science degree from the University of Buenos Aires and continues to recertify regularly. She genu