Rahul Jain

Solutions engineer. Product builder. Practical futurist.

Summary

Senior product leader with sixteen years at Cisco across India and the US, spanning solution architecture, presales engineering, and product management, with a consistent pattern of turning expert-only work into tools: Easy Migrate portal 2010 ($5M in weeks), Migration Scoping Automation in Raleigh (weeks to hours), Branch Upgrade Automation in Gurgaon (80% manual reduction, $15M+ revenue), and compliance audit automation in 2024 (eight-month cycle to three, across 1,200 sites). Now a Solutions Engineer at Selector, applying sixteen years of Cisco networking and product experience to AI-driven network observability and AIOps.

Experience

Solutions Engineer

Jun 2026 – present

Selector

Gurgaon

  • AI-driven network observability and AIOps for enterprise and service-provider networks.
  • Pre-sales solutioning, demos, and POCs that translate telemetry into actionable insight.
  • Product-management-informed scoping: the problem worth solving, not just the demo.

Founder & Principal Consultant

Dec 2024 – May 2026

InfoCzar

Gurgaon

  • Independent product and technology consulting.
  • Advised on SmartLease, a device-leasing product, from concept through pilot.
  • AI adoption, product design, and go-to-market advisory.

Product Manager (Compliance)

Apr 2024 – Nov 2024

Cisco Systems

Gurgaon

  • Built end-to-end audit automation for hardware and software compliance across 1,200 sites.
  • Audit cycle: eight months to three. Effort halved.
  • Earned ISC2 Cybersecurity and Microsoft AZ-900.

Product Manager (Services)

Oct 2019 – Apr 2024

Cisco Systems

Gurgaon

  • Owned three products end-to-end: Digital Twin, Branch Upgrade Automation, Endpoint Classifier.
  • Built the AFM framework. Lead outcome: Branch Upgrade Automation, with 80% manual reduction and $15M+ in service revenue.
  • Cross-functional execution across product, sales, delivery, legal, and finance.

Presales Solution Architect

Jun 2012 – Sep 2019

Cisco Systems

Raleigh, USA

  • $100M in services sales over four years.
  • Built Migration Scoping Automation: weeks compressed to hours. Adopted as a global standard.
  • Led 2,000 change windows at Verizon Wireless with zero outages.
  • Six-month rescue at Rockwell Automation; turned customer sentiment from negative to positive.
  • Earned a Data Science Level 1 at NC State.

Network Consultant

Aug 2008 – Jun 2012

Cisco Systems

Bengaluru

  • Service Provider migrations for AT&T, Vodafone, STC, Airtel, Turkcell, DU Dubai, Sprint, Paetec, and Reach Telecom.
  • Built the Easy Migrate portal in 2010: Cisco Migration Services at 25% of the previous price. $5M in orders within weeks. Inaugurated by Wim Elfrink, then CEO of Cisco India.
  • Built Quick Check, a post-migration verification tool licensed to 10+ customers.
  • Designed and deployed the Commonwealth Games 2010 video transmission network.
  • Won the Cisco Appreciation Programme award for an IOS-XR lab workshop spanning 5 Cisco teams and 8 Indian Telecom SPs.

Education

Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh

2004 – 2008

B.E. (Hons.), Electronics & Electrical Communication.

  • PECFEST 2005, SMS marketing. Ran fest marketing on SMS when SMS was still the only channel that landed at scale. Built the registration system; 1,200+ signups in three days.
  • Hostel LAN, 2006. Pooled funds with fellow students to build the first hostel network. Laid cables, deployed switches. A 100+ computer star topology, fully resident-funded.

North Carolina State University

2015

Data Science Programme, Level 1.

PKR Jain Public School, Ambala

2004

Schooling.

Certifications

Recent (2024)

  • ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity
  • Microsoft AZ-900 Azure Fundamentals

IT Service Management

  • ITIL Service Transition Specialist
  • ITIL Foundation

Cisco

  • CCIE Service Provider (Written cleared)
  • CCIP, CCDA, CCNA
  • GTAP Graduate

Selected projects

Cisco

SmartLease

Skills

Solutions EngineeringProduct ManagementAIOpsNetwork ObservabilityPre-Sales/POCsNetwork TelemetryBGP/MPLS/SR/SD-WANSolution architectureData analyticsProcess automation (Python in Excel)ITIL service transitionService Provider & Enterprise networking