# Meerah Rajavel

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Real Alpha has cut one moment of Meerah Rajavel (Senior vice president & chief information officer, Palo Alto Networks) talking, from an interview on The Information's TITV published Oct 16, 2026.

- Role: Senior vice president & chief information officer, Palo Alto Networks
- About: Leads Palo Alto Networks’ global IT strategy, scaling technology and delivering solutions for its worldwide teams.
- On X: https://x.com/meerahrajavel

## What Meerah Rajavel said

- [Palo Alto uses a harness to measure AI-assisted development](https://realalpha.app/s/palo-alto-uses-a-harness-to-measure-ai-assisted-development/)
  The Information's TITV · Oct 16, 2026 · 4 min
  > “And we have gone 3x NPI over the last six months, and I have not increased even a single headcount on my software engineers.” — Meerah Rajavel · [13:16](https://realalpha.app/v/1hXxzkU77iI/?t=796)

## The episode

- [The Pentagon’s CTO Explains the Anthropic Rift and Superintelligence Task Force](https://realalpha.app/v/1hXxzkU77iI/) · The Information's TITV · Oct 16, 2026