Cisco hands a 27-year-old engineer the keys to a sweeping code rewrite

President Jeetu Patel plucked a young engineer from deep in the org chart and gave him unlimited AI tokens to refactor Cisco's code Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO) price Full chart and stats Loading chart… Market cap $428.1B (shares as of 2026-08-27) P/E (trailing) 32.6 (EPS to 2026-07-25) Annual revenue $63.3B USD (FY ended 2026-07-25) 10-K Annual revenue growth +11.8% (FY ended 2026-07-25 vs FY ended 2025-07-26) 10-K Annual net income 13,267,000,000 USD (FY ended 2026-07-25, attributable to the company) 10-K Annual operating margin 24.3% (FY ended 2026-07-25) Forward P/E Unavailable: no dated forecast source Gloria daily close for session Oct 29, 2026. Market cap and trailing P/E use this close with the SEC share total and trailing diluted earnings, each dated next to its figure. Annual revenue, revenue growth, net income and margin show their own fiscal period and link the 10-K. Current context may postdate this article. Cisco Systems Inc. and its peers Cisco just gave one of its most consequential engineering jobs to someone who, until recently, sat five rungs below the executive suite. He is 27 years old. Jeetu Patel, Cisco’s president and chief product officer, picked the young eng...