President and Chief Product Officer, Cisco.
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Cisco's president and chief product officer, per Fortune (October 30, 2026).
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The idea is to combine rigorous simulations and evals, with swarms of AI agents to rewrite a piece of existing code in a memory-safe language. We want to see how quickly we can migrate it, make the code more compact, and create a better foundation for shipping new features.
Jeetu PatelPresident and Chief Product Officer · Executive, 
Cisco
Social post: Jeetu Patel's LinkedIn post about modernizing Cisco's code, LinkedIn, November 2, 2026.
The hardest and most consequential work are the simulations and the evals in addition to the test pipeline. We need to test whether the rewritten software preserves the behavior customers depend on, performs under real conditions, and handles failures correctly. The agents can iterate, but passing those comprehensive evals has to be a prerequisite for deployment.
Jeetu PatelPresident and Chief Product Officer · Executive, Cisco
Social post: Jeetu Patel's LinkedIn post about modernizing Cisco's code, LinkedIn, November 2, 2026.
Most people misunderstand this as tokenmaxxing. It is actually evalsmaxxing. We’re in the early stages here and I love that at Cisco we’re on the frontier and learning how to best shape the future of software engineering.
Jeetu PatelPresident and Chief Product Officer · Executive, Cisco
Social post: Jeetu Patel's LinkedIn post about modernizing Cisco's code, LinkedIn, November 2, 2026.
Running an experiment and deploying its output are separate decisions. We can explore what is possible, assess the quality, and understand the economics before deciding what belongs in production. We won’t know how far this approach can take us until we try.
Jeetu PatelPresident and Chief Product Officer · Executive, Cisco
Social post: Jeetu Patel's LinkedIn post about modernizing Cisco's code, LinkedIn, November 2, 2026.
The only way for us to keep accelerating is to make sure we’re surrounded by people with a broad range of experience… Roughly one-third of my team is experienced, scaled operators who understand how the Cisco engine works. The second third are systems thinkers from the market who bring the outside-in perspective. And the final third is made of entrepreneurial founders, CEOs, and engineers who are AI-native who operate in founder mode.
Jeetu PatelPresident and Chief Product Officer · Executive, Cisco
Press report: Cisco chief found a 27-year-old ex-founder ‘buried away in the organization doing something unstrategic’—now he’s upgrading 98% of its code, Fortune (Orianna Rosa Royle), October 30, 2026.
I’ve given him unlimited tokens because he’s going to refactor code… So I’m like, you can go, you can go nuts.
Jeetu PatelPresident and Chief Product Officer · Executive, Cisco
Press report: Cisco chief found a 27-year-old ex-founder ‘buried away in the organization doing something unstrategic’—now he’s upgrading 98% of its code, Fortune (Orianna Rosa Royle), October 30, 2026.