Rahul Jain is a seasoned Principal Data & AI Engineering Leader with more than 22 years of experience architecting large-scale data platforms and advanced AI-driven analytics systems. His expertise spans OLTP, OLAP, time-series, document, and key-value databases, as well as real-time and batch processing across petabyte-scale environments.
At Cisco Systems, Rahul leads architecture for the Webex Analytics Platform, designing high-throughput data pipelines that process billions of events daily using Kafka, Spark, Flink, and Pinot. He built RADAR, a real-time anomaly detection and root-cause analysis framework, cutting detection time by 50%, and developed CHAI (Controlhub AI Assistance), a natural-language-to-SQL interface that democratizes enterprise data access. He also championed metadata governance through DataHub and modernized ingestion and processing layers to improve reliability and reduce operational costs.
Previously at iPass, Rahul designed the Firefly big data platform and deployed real-time reporting, geo-analytics, and network recommendation systems that significantly improved network intelligence and performance.
Rahul is skilled across cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), distributed systems, AI/ML, and modern data engineering ecosystems. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and is fluent in English.