Preyansh Shah is a Senior Engineering Manager at Cisco with expertise across AI platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, enterprise software, cybersecurity, performance engineering, observability, reliability, developer tooling, and production-readiness evaluation. His work focuses on building and assessing scalable, secure, reliable, and production-ready technology platforms that deliver measurable real-world impact.

Previously, led performance engineering, capacity engineering, and observability for a global cloud security platform serving 5,000+ enterprise customers and protecting Fortune 100 multi-cloud environments. He has deep experience evaluating complex systems for technical originality, architecture quality, scalability, security, reliability, operational maturity, user value, and business impact.

He is also an inventor on a cited U.S. patent, reflecting his contribution to technically novel and innovation-driven work. As a QS Reimagine Education judge, Preyansh brings a practical industry perspective to evaluating education technology, AI-enabled learning platforms, digital learning experiences, and innovation-driven solutions. He is especially interested in solutions that combine strong technical execution with learner impact, accessibility, privacy, scalability, measurable outcomes, and real-world adoption.