# Vishal Nagaonkar > Solutions Engineer at Zscaler Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/vishalnagaonkar An accomplished Sr. Sales Engineer with a strong track record of surpassing sales targets, offering tailored solutions, and leading many of Juniper Networks' most successful POCs and RFPs, while fostering trusted advisor relationships. ## Work Experience ### Solutions Engineer at Zscaler @ Zscaler Jan 2023 – Present Responsible for helping clients transform their network and application access approach by presenting the Zscaler platform to prospective customers, creating and delivering demonstrations of the products, gathering customer technical requirements, creating evaluation test plans with customers, and then managing the evaluation process to a successful conclusion. Leveraging a strong technical foundation and a desire to set the vision translating business objectives into enticing and actionable solution design. Acting as a trusted technical and business advisor to our clients while aiding the customer's transformational journey. ### Senior Systems Engineer @ Juniper Networks Jan 2014 – Jan 2023 | Greater Denver Area • Consistently recognized as a top-performing Sales Engineer, receiving Summit Circle SE of the Year award in 2016, Commitment to Excellence SE of the Year award in 2015, and Go-To-Automation SE from 2015 to 2021. Consistently surpassing quota by an average of 115% during FYs 2015, 2016 & 2018. • Accrued extensive customer-facing expertise by actively supporting prominent cable MSOs (Charter, COX, Wide Open West, CableOne, Astound). Taking a leadership role in driving the successful execution of 15+ POCs & 30+ RFPs/RFIs, with the goal of launching Juniper products into customer’s live production network. • Led Juniper’s first virtual firewall sale in the history of Cox by enabling Edge team to deploy data centers with vSRX. Contributed to Juniper’s first MIST win across Cox’s Hospitality, Business, Residential BU’s as an alternative to incumbent Cisco, Aruba and Ruckus. Cox Backbone Win – MX (PE) and PTX (P) upgrades with 400G & 800G support, competitive with Nokia and Cisco. • Saved $5M in CapEx & OpEx for Cox in 2017 by spearheading the product launch of Managed Router as Security Virtualized Services (MRaaS) at COX by deploying Contrail powered on-prem cloud (compute,storage,networking), decisively displacing Cisco. • Contributed to Juniper’s digital transformation from a networking to cloud corporation by implementing Contrail, OpenStack, OpenShift at Cox. Spearheaded innovation in VNF management via Appformix, reducing operational costs by 15%. Resolved performance bottlenecks with Netronome Agilio NICs, achieving a 25% boost in network throughput. • End-to-End Experience with Juniper’s portfolio: Automation & Orchestration (Contrail, Openstack, AppFormix, K2iO, Paragon, Northstar, Healthbot), Data Center (EX/QFX/ACX series), Security (SRX, IBM JSA/CP4S), Backbone (MX,PTX). ### Technical Marketing Intern in Competitive Intelligence Team - Service Provider Space @ Juniper Networks Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Sunnyvale , California Built a demo on Juniper's SDN Contrail Controller,Worked on RFC Performance testing, Reviewed & analyzed competitive hotsheets containing router's parameters and Had represented Juniper at SCTE CableShow. ### NOC Intern @ Global Cloud Xchange Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 ### Web Developer and Server Administrator @ University of Colorado Boulder Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | University of Colorado at Boulder,USA Developed the website through Content Management System (CMS), such as Drupal, Joomla.It facilitated the instant access to resources and increased the productivity by reducing the investment cost up to 50%. ### Senior Sales Executive - CISCO BDM @ AGC Networks Ltd. ESSAR Groups Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 Worked in CISCO Business and Development Management team deploying customized integrated solutions within Collaboration, Borderless Networks and Data Centre & Virtualization. Solved the technical challenges of clients by deploying solutions such BYOD, IP telephony, contact center, telepresence, Strategically mapped the mid-market and enterprise accounts by managing Pre-Sale team, Channel Partners, Supply Chain Management team at micro level. ### Student Intern @ Alcatel-Lucent Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Navi Mumbai,India Successfully manufactured the 3G Robot by integrating DTMF MT8870 IC with Intel Microcontroller MCS 8051. The machine could detect and diffuse explosives. Integrated Heat, Gas, Temperature sensors and Metal, Smoke detector with relay drive IC ULN2803 ### R & D Intern @ L&T Infotech Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Navi Mumbai, India Worked on Project : Alarm Control & Monitoring System Duties: Designed MIMIC pages and Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) used in ships. Worked in a team under the project manager architectural diagram of the control systems. ### R & D Intern @ IMA INDUSTRIES SRL - IMA GROUP Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Navi Mumbai, India Wokred on PLC-Blister Packaging Machine: Implemented Ladder Logic by programming Siemens ET200S IM151-8PLC embedded with auto control system used in blister packaging machines in the pharmaceutical industry. ### R & D Intern @ Tan Swa Technologies Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Navi Mumbai, India Worked on Electrical Control Panels: Assembled PLC Panel, Instrumentation Panels, Slippering System Purge Panels, Control System Panels using PLC panels, VFD panels, MIMIC panels, PC console desk, Power panels etc. ## Education ### Master's in Interdisciplinary Telecommunication Program - ITP in Engineering - Telecommunication University of Colorado Boulder ### Bachelors in Electronics and Telecommunication in Engineering - Telecommunication University of Mumbai ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/vinaga --- Source: https://flows.cv/vishalnagaonkar JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/vishalnagaonkar/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05