Prasenjit Sarkar is a Director of Product Management at Cisco for their Emerging Technologies and Incubation venture. His primary focus is on cloud-native application networking and security. He is a seasoned product leader in the cloud-native space. He has vast knowledge of Kubernetes, containers, container and Kubernetes networking, Service Mesh, API management, and serverless computing, among other things. He is also an author of the virtualization blog Kube-Mesh and has authored six industry-leading books on virtualization, SDN, physical compute, and the cloud, among other topics. He has 12 granted patents in the US and has authored numerous research articles.