Rahul Deshpande Helping companies build usecases in AI

Rahul is my product manager in CISCO. As a Product Manager, Rahul is a true pillar during the entire product life-cycle process. His ability to gather information and make strong business decisions is truly exceptional. He has a knack for thinking outside box and turning vision from paper to reality. He has Analytical and strategic thinking skills which are key ingredient for being a product manager. He is full of ideas and really think from a customer point of view. His ability to listen and understand his clients' needs allows him to consult effectively.

His calming personality makes you feel completely comfortable. His focus keeps everything moving smoothly, he makes sure all the deadlines are met, and makes sure that whatever project he is working on meets the highest standards. He is always encouraging and positive. Rahul makes things happen!

His ability to clearly articulate and lead the product strategy made him an invaluable asset in those cases where a prospect needed to see and believe the vision of where the product was headed. In front of customers, Rahul is a statesman: a thorough professional, an excellent listener, and always seeking the common ground. Within the company, he is a collaborative team player, and can be relied upon to lead multi-functional projects diligently and through example. He is an independent and customer focused strategist.

He is one very critical piece of this puzzle called NHF and One Portal and one of the key driving force in making them multi-million dollar products. He had successfully led the two of these products through multiple releases and made a pure success story.

He is one of the best product manager one can have. I have enjoyed all of our encounters and recommend him very highly!

Rahul is a diligent and detail-oriented product manager with sharp focus on execution and results. Rahul is one who is highly focused on his job constantly drives product evolution by working seamlessly with x-functional teams specifically Engineering. He connects well with the engineers, provides them the direction and clarity striking the fine balance between business and technical requirements. His passion and commitment is contagious and will be asset to any organization that he works for.

I had the pleasure of working with Rahul while he was in our Wireless Networking BU while he was in the Assurewave group. I particularly liked Rahul's sense of focus on quality, diligence on assigned tasks, and collaboration skills. Technically dug deep on issues at-hand and a great team player. He would be a great addition to any team and should be considered strongly for any role he is wishing to pursue.

Rahul is a detailed oriented individual. He's a great team player and always willing to assist other team members. He has to 'go to' aptitude when working on critical situations.

I have worked with Rahul in two different roles. First he was network solution test lead and the second as a Product manager. As for the solution test lead he was in charge of developing and implementing a comprehensive solution test for wireless enterprise infrastructure designed for various vertical market (i.e. healhtcare, education, business office,..etc). As for the product manager he was in charge of products used by professional services to enhance data gathering for product usage, outage, and SLA analysis.

Rahul is one of those guys who keeps Calm and Carrys on to gets his work done quietly! His technical background and in depth understanding of network solution helps him to excel as a product manager. He focus on the details of his work and ensure that all the "t"s are crossed and "i"s are dotted. He is an excellent team player and easy to work with. He is very aware of the functional boundaries and knows when to escalate if issues needs attention.

He is a great asset for his team and lookforward to work with him again.

Rahul is a pure Product management material person. Possessing a strong work ethos coupled with honest commitment and passion. He consistently inspired all the cross-functional teams with his dynamism and enthusiastic determination. A savvy product manager, he always had his pulse on customer needs and market trends. His humor and happy-go-lucky nature adds to his professional person
He is the best Product Manager I have come across & its my privilege to work with him.

Rahul and I worked together at Cisco ONS product line (Optical Transport Buisness Unit). He was very thorough and skillful engineer with focus toward quality. He enjoyed the work with passion and completed all the challanges on time, and communicated very well to management team as well as to the peers. I always admired his problem solving techniques and focus. He will be a real asset for any team.

Rahul and I have worked very closely for almost a 8-9 months. A savvy product manager, he always had his pulse on customer needs. He has excellent domain and product knowledge. He was always very clear about what he exactly wanted in the product. He would balance out the long term and short term requirements nicely to suit the strategic goals of the product and company. Rahul was always a pleasure to work with on a day to day basis.

Rahul was one of my brighter students in the MBA program at Lucas Graduate School of Business at SJSU. On class projects, Rahul demonstrated the ability to capitalize his engineering experience at Cisco to effectively deliver results on class team projects. His teammates appreciated Rahul’s unique perspectives in Product Management-related practical issues and their application to real life scenarios. I feel confident he is, and will continue to be, an asset to Silicon Valley hi-tech industry.

While working at Cisco Systems, I had the distinct pleasure of being able to work with Rahul. As an lead engineer, he was one of my teams many 'customers'. Always revered by both his fellow engineers and our team as a highly knowledgeable contributor to Cisco's projects, Rahul was also very helpful, friendly, appreciative. It was a distinct pleasure to work with Rahul and I would gladly welcome the opportunity to do so again!