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Nandu Mallapragada

Director of Engineering

Nandu Mallapragada is a Technology Leader and Senior Architect with over two and half decades of experience in building scalable, enterprise, distributed software products and platforms. Currently, as Director of Engineering at Outshift by Cisco, he is looking into quantum technologies and generative agentic AI architectures to enable productizing multi -agentic applications in a post-quantum world. What unites his work is a passion for combining cutting-edge technology with practical business impact to solve real-world problems and create meaningful value.

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