Rajiv Gupta is a former General Manager at Hewlett Packard where he reported to Carly Fiorina. 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 (now owned by Cisco) and supports Bodhtree (based in Hyderabad) as a technology adviser. Gupta is an IIT Kharagpur alumnus. He received his Ph.D. in compiler optimization from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in less than a year.[citation needed]
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