Sabitha Krishnamurthy

Senior Director of Engineering in Outshift by Cisco

Sabitha Krishnamurthy is Senior Director of Engineering in Outshift by Cisco, a group which focuses on emerging technologies that target adjacent markets and personas. She is currently leading a team of highly talented professionals across US and EU in the research, innovation, incubation and development of products and solutions in the areas of GenAI, Quantum, Cloud Native Networking and new product/solutions ideas in verticals such as Healthcare, Supply Chain, and technologies such as AI/ML, distributed quantum networking, post quantum cryptography, etc.

In her 24+ year career at Cisco, Sabitha has worked on a multitude of products across Service Provider and Enterprise markets, leading teams that built the software stack powering more than $17B of Cisco’s products in Enterprise Routing, Switching, Wireless and IoT portfolios. With four Cisco Pioneer Awards under her belt, Sabitha’s passion is technology. Her range of experience spans across platform, infrastructure, control plane, data plane, L2/L3 forwarding, security, cloud, virtualization, blockchain, AI/ML, quantum, etc.