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Harvinder K.

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Vice President, IT CTO at Western Digital
📍 San Jose, California, United States

As Vice President and IT CTO at Western Digital, Harvinder drives business transformation using innovative technologies. His background as a Distinguished Engineer at Cisco highlights deep expertise in AI, large-scale cloud platforms, and leading high-performance engineering teams. He holds a Master of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee.

He led an initiative at Cisco to engineer a private data center cloud that scaled to manage over 40,000 virtual machines.

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Experience
33 Years
Current Role
Vice President, IT CTO
Job Level
Leadership
Location
San Jose, California, United States
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Agentic AI
At Cisco, he led the AI strategy for the licensing team, focusing on driving efficiencies and automating business tasks using an agentic framework.
Business Transformation
His career is centered on transforming business by deploying digital technologies, modernizing commerce platforms, and re-engineering mission-critical systems for scalability.
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Career

Work history

1-2026
Vice President, IT CTO
Western Digital
11-2024 - 1-2026
Distinguished Engineer, Agentic AI (Licensing)
Cisco
2019 - 1-2026
Distinguished Engineer, License Central Transformation
Cisco
2016 - 2021
Distinguished Engineer, Subscription / Commerce Platform
Cisco
2012 - 2016
Distinguished Engineer, CITEIS Private Cloud
Cisco
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Media appearances

Western Digital Corporation (WDC) Discusses Transformation to Data‑Centric Strategy and AI‑Driven Storage Innovations – Transcript. Featured in Seeking Alpha
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Education
Master of Technology (MTech)
Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
Bachelor of Technology (BTech)
National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra
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