Hello, I’m Nishant.

I build secure, cloud-native applications and platforms for agentic AI.

I’m a software engineer at Cisco focused on building dependable, intelligent applications for distributed environments.

I build agentic AI platforms and cloud-native infrastructure at Cisco — architecting systems where multi-agent workflows, shared memory, and MCP tools enable agents to collaborate across distributed environments. My recent work spans the IoC Cognitive Fabric Node platform, AGNTCY.org (a Linux Foundation project for agent interoperability), and AI gateways serving models across cloud providers.

My foundation is in distributed systems, Kubernetes, service mesh, and security — with deep experience in Istio, SPIFFE/SPIRE, and multi-cloud environments. I've shipped post-quantum cryptography assessment tools and built RAG pipeline security guardrails — all driven by a belief that great infrastructure should be invisible, secure, and delightful to use.