Josh Halley

Josh Halley, CCIEx3 No. 11924, is a Principal Architect in the office of the CTO at Cisco Systems, where his current role focuses on domains related to up-and-coming and burgeoning new technology trends and innovation, engaging in large and complex strategic negotiations, and working with C-Levels to set technology strategy and direction within their organizations. Over the years Josh has worked in many differing roles at organizations, ranging from technology companies to banking and finance and management consulting. Within Cisco, Josh has worked side by side with many of the company’s business units, product managers, and technical marketing engineers and has been directly involved in the creation and deployment of many new software features across multiple technology domains seen in Cisco’s products and portfolio today.

Today Josh maintains his focus on technology, driving innovation with customers in the field and actively participating in the creation of patents, whitepapers, and new product and service offerings for Cisco. Further to his work within Cisco, Josh is also an opensource software advocate coleading the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Artificial Intelligence Technical Community Group, and is one of the coauthors of the Cisco Virtual Kubelet CNCF project, providing him an opportunity to share his knowledge and expertise with the wider open-source community.