Oct 2025 – Present · 8 mos · Hybrid

Sep 2025 – Present · 9 mos

Oct 2021 – Jul 2025 · 3 yrs 9 mos

Aug 2017 – Jul 2025 · 7 yrs 11 mos

• Elected Chair of the Governing Board since 2021
• Collaborated with the leadership team, managing the annual budget of $60m+
• Define strategic direction for the organization with 700+ member companies
• Oversee growth from 170+ members in 2017 to 700+ members in 2025

Mar 2025 – Present · 1 yr 3 mos · Remote

• The UN Tech Over is a series of hackathons and tech-related challenges that aim to celebrate the great potential of technology and its pivotal role in advancing progress on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The event fosters collaboration, awareness, and engagement with the open source community, demonstrating the transformative power of technology and multi-stakeholder cooperation in solving real-world problems.

Oct 2024 – Jul 2025 · 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Hybrid

• Designed and executed developer playbooks for GenAI in finance, legal, and travel verticals, driving developer activation, engagement, and $MM+ pipeline through self-service adoption and partner-led programs.
• Forged and scaled 50+ strategic partnerships across hyperscalers, GSIs, ISVs, and startups with joint developer programs and fuel product-led adoption and ecosystem-driven growth.
• Amplified Intel’s developer voice through 50+ media, analyst, and community briefings.
• Managed a 40-person global team with $MM+ budget; 200+ training sessions (NPS 60+); KPIs to optimize reach, engagement, conversion, and retention ensuring data-driven program optimization.
• Led AWS marketplace offering and collaborated on downstream partner APIs with self-service onboarding.
• Launched full-funnel developer campaigns across AI portfolio, reaching 70M+ developers via blogs, webinars, newsletters, social, and events. Drove 3x engagement by segmenting audiences and optimizing CTAs.

Apr 2022 – Oct 2024 · 2 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Hybrid

• Built and executed GTM playbooks for GenAI in finance, legal, and travel verticals with clear messaging,
• partner co-sell strategies, and field enablement assets.
• Forged and scaled 50+ strategic GenAI partnerships with hyperscalers, GSIs, ISVs, and startups with joint developer programs, competitive positioning, and sales plays.
• Amplified Intel’s developer voice through 50+ media, analyst, and community briefings.
• Managed a 40-person global team with $10M+ budget; 200+ training sessions (NPS 60+); KPIs to measure reach, engagement, and conversion, ensuring data-driven program optimization.
• Launched full-funnel GTM campaigns across open source and AI poraolios, reaching 19M+ developers via blogs, webinars, newsletters, social, and events. Drove 3x engagement by segmenting audiences and
• optimizing CTAs.

Oct 2023 – Jul 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos

Jun 2022 – Jul 2025 · 3 yrs 1 mo

Jul 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 11 mos

Apr 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco, California, United States · Hybrid

• We are looking at solving some of the most challenging problems like climate change, public safety, homelessness, crime, and hunger. This would be aligned with UN sustainability goals. The clear emphasis from the technology perspective is to leverage open source and AI to solve these problems.

Apr 2022 – Jul 2025 · 3 yrs 3 mos

Feb 2020 – Apr 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Defined and executed company-wide open source strategy by aligning cross-functional execs
• Founded Apple’s Open Source Program Office with 5-person team, streamlining participation in open
• source communities and reducing legal review time
• Led large internal developer events with up to 2K attendees and breaking down silos
• Launched InnerSource rollout to scale code reuse across engineering
• Managed the Apple JDK team, defined vision and delivered quarterly milestones on schedule

Mar 2018 – Feb 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos

Apr 2017 – Feb 2020 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Palo Alto, CA

• Defined ecosystem strategy for 4 AWS products such as Amazon EKS and Amazon Corretto, published
• launch blogs, and drove customer adoption
• Led a 50+ cross-functional team towards launch of first AWS-tailored Kubernetes workshop
• Spearheaded a new program to offer AWS promotional credits to 20+ open source projects
• Grew adoption of AWS services by working with solution architects on customer deployments
• Drove AI workload adoption by implementing ML strategy using containers with a 30+ team

Sep 2015 – Apr 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos · Mountain View, CA

• Led GTM for Couchbase products, hiring and scaling DevRel team from 3 to 8
• Launched field enablement programs increasing sales team effectiveness by 50% in new territories
• Built a vibrant and scalable community by recognizing and empowering external experts

Apr 2015 – Sep 2015 · 5 mos · Mountain View, CA

• Manage a team of Technical Marketing Managers and Developer Advocates
• Plan and execute strategy for developer outreach efforts of JBoss Middleware products
• Coordinate creation of collateral for field and sales enablement, developer awareness, and partner training
• Build cross-functional partnerships with Product Management, Engineering, Marketing, Sales, and Services at multiple levels within the company
• Actively work in a cross-functional team to define and drive launches of products,
• events, and campaigns
• Work with sales and and partner community for joint marketing events and collateral
• Active blogging, authoring screencasts, whitepapers, articles, demos
• Present technical sessions at conferences and community events globally

Oct 2013 – Mar 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos · Mountain View, CA

• Plan and execute strategy for developer outreach efforts of JBoss Middleware products
• Hire and manage a team of developer advocates
• Actively work in a cross-functional team to develop and drive launches of products,
• events, and campaigns
• Create collateral for developer awareness, field sales enablement, and partner training
• Work with sales and and partner community for joint marketing events and collateral
• Active blogging, authoring screencasts, whitepapers, articles, demos
• Present technical sessions at conferences and community events globally
• Actively monitor and manage social media presence

Feb 2010 – Oct 2013 · 3 yrs 8 mos

• Arun Gupta is a Java evangelist working at Oracle. Arun has over 15 years of experience in the software industry working in the Java platform and several web-related technologies. In his current role, he works to create and foster the community around Java EE, GlassFish, and WebLogic. He has been with the Java EE team since its inception and contributed to all releases. Arun has extensive world wide speaking experience on myriad of topics and loves to engage with the community, customers, partners, and Java User Groups everywhere to spread the goodness of Java.
• He is a prolific blogger at http://blogs.oracle.com/arungupta with over 1300 blog entries and frequent visitors from all around the world. He is a passionate runner and always up for running in any part of the world. You can catch him at @arungupta.

Mar 1999 – Feb 2010 · 10 yrs 11 mos

• Arun Gupta is a GlassFish Evangelist working at Sun Microsystems. He was the spec lead for APIs in the Java platform, committer in multiple Open Source projects, participated in standard bodies and contributed to Java EE and SE releases. He is a prolific blogger with numerous useful tips at http://blogs.sun.com/arungupta.

Aug 1998 – Mar 1999 · 7 mos

• Web-based marketing tool using Netscape IFC classes + JDBC. Also worked on installing MS Index Server and setting up search capabilities on a website.

Jul 1997 – Jun 1998 · 11 mos

• Worked on a Network Analysis and Reporting System using Visual C++ and Microsoft Foundation Classes.

Sep 1996 – Jun 1997 · 9 mos

• Worked on setting up intranet through out the division. This included setting up the leased line for high speed connectivity, installing all the web servers, FTP server, proxy server, email servers, and developing multiple applications to enable homogenous access of data in browser.