Rajiv Gupta is a software pioneer in web services. He was co-inventor and general manager of Hewlett Packard's E-speak project in 1999, and was one of the developers of the IA-64 architecture. He founded Confluent Software (now owned by Oracle Corporation), developing what became an industry-leading CoreSV product. He also founded Securent and supports Bodhtree (based in Hyderabad) as a technology adviser. Gupta is an IIT Kharagpur alumnus. He secured a hotly contested place at the prestigious California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he carried out his work requirements to earn his PhD in just under a year, studying compilers and how to optimize them.
