Hi, I'm Rahul
Solutions engineer. Product builder. Practical futurist.
Rahul Jain

Solutions Engineer at Selector, working on AI for network observability and AIOps. Sixteen years at Cisco before that, across solution architecture, presales, and product management.

Work Experience

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Selector · Solutions Engineer

Jun 2026 – Present

InfoCzar · Founder & Principal Consultant

Dec 2024 – May 2026

Cisco · Product Manager

Oct 2019 – Nov 2024

Cisco · Presales Solution Architect

Jun 2012 – Sep 2019

Cisco · Network Consultant

Aug 2008 – Jun 2012

About

Engineer from PEC Chandigarh, then sixteen years at Cisco across Bengaluru, Raleigh, and Gurgaon — solution architecture, then presales, then product management. After Cisco, a stretch of independent consulting; now a Solutions Engineer at Selector, working on AI for network observability and AIOps. My favourite work sits at the seam between product and process design.

Featured Projects

2026·Personal

PEC Souvenir 2008

A 208-page scanned college souvenir from 2008, turned into a searchable online yearbook. Local LLM OCR, cross-checked extraction, every student profile and photograph indexed.

Shipped
2023–24·Cisco

Digital Twin

Cisco's network Digital Twin product. End-to-end product ownership from MVP through to customer delivery.

Shipped
2021·Cisco

AFM and Branch Upgrade Automation

An automation framework (AFM) and its lead outcome (Branch Upgrade Automation): a 1,200-branch upgrade programme transformed from a six-month war room into a four-week pipeline.

Shipped
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Ideas I'm working through

Space for the ideas, predictions, and policy thinking I'm working through — looking for collaborators, comments, and feedback.

2019·Defence · India

Drone surveillance.

Predicted civilian drone surveillance would become standard for border, infrastructure, and large-event monitoring within five years. Three Indian states had operational programmes by 2024.

2010·Healthcare · India

Online medicine.

Wrote an internal Cisco proposal for a network reference architecture for an online pharmacy. Was told the regulatory environment would never allow it. India's online pharmacy market crossed ₹10,000 crore in 2024.

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What colleagues say

“Outstanding product management skills, a true customer advocate with sharp data-analytical strengths.”

Divya Jain

Consulting Engineering Technical Leader, Cisco (CCIE SP, AIOps)

“His ability to quickly and correctly identify both the technical and business requirements established him as a leader on the team.”

Matt Engle

Principal Architect, Cisco

“A Technical Product Manager who can drive product strategy, facilitate seamless execution and deliver measurable results.”

Abhilash Saladi

Senior Services Product Manager, Cisco

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