Paresh Gupta

Paresh is a Principal Technical Marketing Engineer at Cisco where he drives the technical and market evolution of AI infrastructure and storage networking. His recent accomplishments include qualifying NVIDIA GPU and Intel Gaudi 2 GPUs connected via Cisco Nexus Switches and authoring the book on Detecting, Troubleshooting, and Preventing Congestion in Storage Networks. Paresh is well-known for his contributions to Cisco's business across many products like Nexus, MDS, UCS, and Nexus Dashboard covering technologies like RDMA (RoCE), NVMe/TCP, and Fibre Channel. One notable example is Cisco SAN Analytics which Paresh spearheaded since its inception, leading to a significant adoption in the initial four years. Besides his day job, he has developed full-blown traffic monitoring apps for Cisco UCS Servers, Nexus and MDS switches, and made them available for free, while working late nights and weekends from his garage. Hundreds of organizations use Paresh's apps in production across the worl