Interview

Arun Gupta

Arun Gupta: Heather, thank you very much. I’m super excited about this opportunity.

My name is Arun Gupta. I am the vice president and general manager of the open ecosystem team at Intel.

A few years ago, if somebody had asked me if I saw myself working at Intel in this job, I would have not even imagined it, and I’m very grateful to all the wonderful people that I’ve been surrounded with, the impact that the community has had on me over the years, and all the good wishes that I received that got me here.

Now, I’m not discounting all the technical work that I’ve done over the years with multiple communities. I’ve been fortunate – over the last several years, I’ve been paid to come and work for a nice big company, and that is only possible because, essentially, I was doing a lot of work out in the community – blogging, writing, authoring a book, giving keynotes all over the world in more...