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Arun Gupta is an open source strategist, advocate, and practitioner for over two decades. He has taken companies such as Apple, Amazon, Intel, and Sun

Microsystems through systemic changes to embrace open source principles to solve global challenges. This enabled them to leverage community-powered collaboration and use that as a force multiplier to expedite solving challenging problems. He has mentored numerous startups and worked with hundreds of customers to define their open collaboration strategies to make them more effective.

Arun actively participates in several open source foundations in leadership positions that define new paradigms for transparency, diversity, inclusion, and collaboration on a global scale. As an author of multiple books and 2000+ blogs, his contributions to the open source community have made a significant impact and continue to drive positive change.

He has delivered technical talks in 45+ countries, authored multiple books, and is a Docker Captain, Java Champion, and Java User Group leader. He also founded the Devoxx4Kids chapter in the U.S. and continues to promote technology education among children.

Arun holds two patents on using XML and XSL for an efficient generation of test reports. Arun is an avid runner, and is easily accessible at @arungupta on Twitter and at @arungupta@sfba.social on Mastodon.

Career
Gupta started his career in July 1996 at HCL Hewlett Packard in Noida, India. He worked there for one year as Member of Technical Staff.

He left HCL in June 1997 and joined Hughes Software Systems, Gurgaon as Senior Software Engineer. He left Hughes Software Systems in July 1998 and came to USA as an engineer through Global Infotech. He worked there for six months on different client sites.

Gupta left Global Infotech in February 1999 and joined Sun Microsystems as Software Quality Engineer in the JDK team. He continued to stay with Sun Microsystems after the company was acquired by Oracle Corporation.

He left Oracle in Sep 2013 and joined Red Hat as Director of Technical Marketing and Developer Advocacy.

He left Red Hat in Sep 2015 and joined Couchbase as Vice President of Developer Relations.

He left Couchbase in April 2017 and joined Amazon as Principal Open Source Technologist. He was responsible for the open source strategy and implementation of multiple services at AWS. He helped bootstrap Amazon EKS team and actively participated in initial launch of the service. Talk about Amazon Corretto, Firecracker, Open Distro for ElasticSearch. Created the first Kubernetes for AWS workshop by leading a team of 40+ Solutions Architects and multiple partners. Made Amazon join CNCF. GB rep

He left Amazon in February 2020 and joined Apple as Head of the Open Source Program Office. He also led the Kubernetes Testing Team and Java team at Apple. GB rep for CNCF and helped hire 40+ members from the cloud native community.

He left Apple in April 2022 and joined Intel as Vice President and General Manager of Open Ecosystems.

Foundations and Standard Bodies
Arun has been involved with open source foundations and standard bodies for several years.

Java Community Process, WS-I, W3C, OASIS, Linux Foundation, CNCF, OpenSSF, OCI Trademark (2 years)

Books
Arun has authored six books targeted for Java developers, both young and adult.


 * Kubernetes for Java Developers
 * Docker for Java Developers
 * Minecraft Modding with Forge: A Family-Friendly Guide to Building Fun Mods in Java
 * Java EE and HTML5 Enterprise Application Development
 * Java EE 7 Essentials: Enterprise Developer Handbook
 * Java EE 6 Pocket Guide: A Quick Reference for Simplified Enterprise Java Development

His most fun experience was writing the Minecraft Modding book with his son when he was 11-years old.

Public Speaking
Arun has been a public speaker for over two decades. He has delivered hundreds of talks in over 45+ countries on a wide range of technical and non-technical topics.The audience has varied from elementary school students to CxOs to parents and all over.


 * Fostering an Open Source Culture (FLOSS Weekly Podcast, 2023)
 * Non-Technical Skills Eat Technical Skills for Breakfast (Keynote at All Things Open 2022)
 * Why Amazon Cares About Open Source (Keynote at O'Reilly OSCON 2019)
 * Open Source and Containers on AWS (Keynote at KubeCon 2018)
 * Introducing Amazon Corretto (Devoxx Belgium 2019)
 * Kubernetes-ize your Java Application (GOTO 2018)
 * Refactor your Java EE application using Microservices and Containers (3-hours tutorial at Devoxx Belgium, 2015)
 * Docker and Kubernetes Recipes for Java Developers (3-hours tutorial at Devoxx Belgium 2015)

Personal Life
Arun is happily married with two kids.

Community Service
Arun is dedicated to social responsibility and community service. He has run a global non-profit organization for over a decade, promoting technology education among children.

Arun also actively participates and mentors multiple merit badges in The Boy Scouts of America and serves as a role model for a healthy lifestyle among his family and friends.

Running
https://github.com/arun-gupta/running

Interests
He enjoys running, lifting, and hiking.