Gupta joined SCO in 1996 to work in the ISV engineering group. During this time, Gupta worked with strategic ISV partners -- including Progress, Oracle, Computer Associates, and others -- on their ports to SCO UNIX platforms. Gupta then moved to the SCO UK escalations group and led the 24x7 enterprise escalations engineering team. He also led the SCOx eCommerce and Web Services initiatives. At SCO, Gupta has also conducted the UnixWare development effort in SCO's Murray Hill, New Jersey development center as senior director of UNIX engineering.

Most recently, Gupta has been serving as SCO's Vice President of Engineering -- providing technology leadership for the development and enhancement of all SCO products, including leading its two major operating system releases of SCO UnixWare 7.1.4 and SCO OpenServer 6. Before joining SCO, Gupta worked for Fujitsu ICL in the UK. During this engagement, Gupta contributed tremendous effort to the core kernel team at ICL that oversaw the reference port and device driver development of UNIX System V on the SPARC platform. Prior to this experience, Gupta started his career as an intern scientist at Indian Space and Research Organization (ISRO), India, where he worked on advanced digital signal processors and also published a paper on complex algorithms for speech synthesis at low bit rates.

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