Jeff Raymond

Jeff Raymond is the current VP of EOS Software and Services at Arista Networks. Prior to joining Arista, Jeff spent 14 years at Cisco in a variety of roles. Jeff started as a Senior Director of Platform Product Management responsible for the Nexus 7000 platform. Jeff eventually took on responsibility for additional Platform product management, including the Nexus 7000, 6000, 5000, 4000, and 2000 Series platforms. In their role as Senior Director, they managed strategy, financials, roadmap, customer/field engagements, and daily operations of $3B/annual portfolio of data center switching products. Jeff led a team of (12) hardware product managers and (up to 11) TMEs.

Before Cisco, Jeff spent 3 years at IBM Global Services as a Networking IT Specialist performing IBM Services for IBM and Cisco networking products.

Jeff Raymond attended the University of Virginia, where they earned a Bachelor of Science in Systems Engineering. Jeff then went on to earn an engineering degree from Villanova University.

Jeff Raymond reports to Kenneth Duda, Founder, CTO & SVP, Software Engineering. They are on a team with Ashwin Kohli - SVP, Customer Engineering, Hugh Holbrook - Group VP, Software Engineering, and Pramod Badjate - Group VP & GM, Cognitive Campus.