Jeet Kaul

Jeet Kaul is the Vice President of Developer Products and Programs for Sun Microsystems Inc. Jeet leads a worldwide organization that delivers tools and programs for developers, including the award-winning NetBeans and Sun Developer Network, and the record-setting Sun Studio compilers. Previously Jeet directed development of the Java EE platform and the Sun Java Application Server. He spearheaded open-sourcing of the Java EE platform as part of the launch of the GlassFish community.

Jeet has more than 19 years of technical, entrepreneurial, and leadership experience in the computer industry. Jeet was a founder of Rocktide Incorporated in 2000, which was later acquired by NetObjects where he then served as Vice President of Engineering. Prior to Rocktide, he was a Chief Architect at BeyondNews, which was purchased by Inktomi for $90 million in 1999. Prior to BeyondNews, Jeet held senior technical and management positions at Apple Computer.

Jeet holds a Master's of Science Degree in Computer Engineering from Rice University in Houston, and a Bachelor of Engineering Degree with Honors from Birla Institute of Technology, India.