Vishal Desai

I am a Distinguished Engineer at Cisco with 20+ years of experience building and architecting enterprise wireless systems.My journey has taken me from working deep in wireless radios, firmware, RF/PHY/MAC algorithms and embedded systems to architecting cloud-scale AIOps services delivering intelligent automation. I enjoy working across the full technology stack, connecting deep systems expertise with distributed cloud architecture, AI-driven decision systems and closed-loop automation.I have helped pioneer several generations of Cisco wireless innovation, including AI-RRM, Cisco’s first unified closed-loop wireless AIOps architecture across on-prem (Catalyst) and Cloud (Meraki) deployments, next-generation Wi-Fi 6E/7 RF management, RF Health Index, and AI-driven services spanning network configuration, troubleshooting and optimization. My work increasingly focuses on bringing together Wireless, ThousandEyes, Central AI, cloud platforms and assurance technologies to create intelligent,