Anjali Jaiswal — Director of Engineering

12+ years transforming engineering organizations from startup velocity to enterprise resilience—delivering exceptional business outcomes through the strategic intersection of technical excellence and leadership. I specialize in scaling high-performance teams while architecting systems that serve millions. My approach balances rapid innovation with enterprise-grade reliability, creating sustainable competitive advantages through both technology and culture. Proven Impact: 👥 Team Excellence: Scaled engineering organizations 13x (1→13 engineers) while maintaining 95% satisfaction and zero attrition through ownership culture, strategic mentorship, and continuous learning frameworks 🚀 Enterprise-Scale Delivery: Architected and delivered mission-critical features serving 20M+ users with 99.99% uptime, including complex infrastructure migrations and centralized IAM systems at Hopin 📈 Operational Innovation: Achieved 60% reduction in customer onboarding time and 40% improvement in network MTTR through strategic automation and process engineering 💰 Revenue Impact: Engineered solutions that unlocked $5M+ enterprise pipeline and accelerated $2M+ ARR, notably the pioneering ThousandEyes-Catalyst integration at Cisco Meraki Technical Leadership Foundation: Deep hands-on expertise across Ruby on Rails, Golang, and cloud-native platforms (AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform) enables credible technical decision-making and architectural guidance teams trust. I believe lasting results emerge when technical excellence meets empowered teams and ownership culture. Currently at Cisco Meraki: Leading network observability innovation that gives enterprises unprecedented visibility and control over critical infrastructure—solving complex distributed systems challenges at scale. Engineering Community: Active mentor (GHCI, Rails Girls), open-source contributor, and frequent speaker on engineering leadership and scaling strategies. If you’re passionate about engineering leadership, scaling strategies, or building technology that makes an impact, let’s connect.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with strong technical leadership in engineering management and cloud technologies.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 11 yrs 2 mos

Skills

Engineering Management
Technical Project Leadership
Project Management
Network Management
Network Engineering
Cloud Management
Software Development

Career Highlights

Scaled engineering teams from 1 to 13 engineers.
Delivered features for 20M+ users with 99.99% uptime.
Achieved 60% reduction in customer onboarding time.

Work Experience

Cisco Meraki

Technical Engineering Manager (1 yr 5 mos)

Technical Leader Engineering (1 yr 9 mos)

Hopin

Back End Developer (11 mos)

GlobalLogic

Associate Consultant - Engineering (3 yrs)

MangoApps

Ruby On Rails Developer (1 yr 3 mos)

Cybrilla Technologies

Full Stack Ruby On Rails Developer (1 yr 10 mos)

Diaspark Inc

Ruby On Rails Developer (1 yr 1 mo)

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (BE) at Rajiv Gandhi Prodyogiki Vishwavidyalaya

12 at Central Board of Secondary Education

Anjali Jaiswal

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India11 yrs 2 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Scaled engineering teams from 1 to 13 engineers.
Delivered features for 20M+ users with 99.99% uptime.
Achieved 60% reduction in customer onboarding time.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with strong technical leadership in engineering management and cloud technologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementTechnical Project LeadershipProject ManagementNetwork ManagementNetwork EngineeringCloud ManagementSoftware Development

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesCloud TechnologiesContinuous IntegrationCucumberEngineering LeadershipGitJavaScriptJenkinsMicrosoft AzureMongoDBMySQLObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)PostgreSQLREST APIsRSpec

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Experience

Cisco meraki

2 roles

Technical Engineering Manager

Promoted

Oct 2024 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Lead, mentor, and support a team of 13 software engineers, overseeing project execution, career development, and performance management.
Delivered the Simplified Onboarding initiative by creating a Configuration Analyzer that parses complex CLI configurations against supported XPaths, significantly accelerating customer migration to the Meraki platform.
Spearheaded the integration of ThousandEyes Enterprise Agents on Catalyst switches, enabling advanced network observability through the Meraki dashboard using IOx and Docker container deployment.
Architected and delivered proactive VLAN Mismatch Alerting system by re-engineering the underlying network topology discovery (CDP/LLDP) engine, reducing mean time to resolution for a common class of network errors.
Foster a culture of ownership, innovation, and collaboration, ensuring the team consistently delivers high-quality, scalable, and impactful features.

Engineering ManagementTechnical Project LeadershipEngineering Leadership

Technical Leader Engineering

Feb 2023 – Nov 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Founding member of the India team, responsible for scaling the group from 1 to 13 engineers by leading hiring, onboarding, and technical mentorship.
Played a pivotal role in the Aurora 2.0 program, contributing to the core effort of onboarding and managing Cisco Catalyst switches within the Meraki cloud dashboard.
Owned the full lifecycle of the Intelligent Packet Capture (PCAP) feature, including architecting the secure S3 file upload/download mechanism and implementing the "Bring Your Own Bucket" (BYOB) capability for enhanced customer flexibility.
Established team best practices for code quality, testing, and deployment, and collaborated closely with US-based teams on foundational projects to ensure alignment and success.

Hopin

Back End Developer

Aug 2021 – Jul 2022 · 11 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

I'm helping Hopin become the world's biggest venue and an engineering powerhouse. I'm part of the Shared Services group as a Backend Developer for the Identity and Access Management team. We're responsible for Hopin's authentication and authorization systems, tooling, and infrastructure.

Globallogic

Associate Consultant - Engineering

Aug 2018 – Aug 2021 · 3 yrs · India

Building Discovery Labs tools, which are a global streaming video platform (OTT), and a suite of applications to support all network’s brands globally on container-based microservices operated on AWS. The platform covers everything from search, catalog, video transcoding, personalization, to global subscriptions, and much more.
My primary job is to:
Build and integrate automated testing tool(s) and ensure that they are fully utilised to the extent possible
Create better software design, promote proper engineering practice, bug prevention strategies, testability, accessibility, privacy, and other advanced quality concepts across products
Lead and coordinate IT Automation and Quality Assurance function that support global Discovery and Legacy platforms
Mentor team and work with resources to achieve their professional objectives and improve upon their areas for development
Drives continuous improvement to key metrics through process, system, and organizational refinements

Mangoapps

Ruby On Rails Developer

Apr 2017 – Jul 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos · Pune Area, India

MangoApps is an Enterprise Collaboration Product that streamlines communication, improves teamwork, and boosts productivity. I am responsible for:
Various modules like Idea Management, Profile Management, Pinned Files, Open API's, OfficeChat, Password Management, Audit Management and Device Management.
Migrating platform from rails 3 to rails 5.
Supporting & Maintaining older modules, Enhancing functionalities & writing new modules from scratch.
Writing migrations & making SQL queries more performant
While doing all this, also maintaining the quality of code which gets deployed monthly on more than 35 different servers that include AWS and on-premise ones.

Cybrilla technologies

Full Stack Ruby On Rails Developer

Jan 2015 – Nov 2016 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

I was responsible for developing Web Applications and REST APIs which are scalable, performant and complex using Ruby Ruby, Rails, Various Relational and Nosql DB for startups from different domains including HealthCare, Finance, ERP etc.

Diaspark inc

Ruby On Rails Developer

Dec 2013 – Jan 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo · Indore Area, India

I had decent exposure of developing applications using ROR. I have been exposed to MsSQL and MySQL, as the respective database languages. I have used Sublime Text & handled version control using Git.