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John Furton
'87John Furton graduated from Michigan Technological University in 1987 with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. After working for Kraft Foods, he co-founded Peapod, an online grocery shopping service and one of the nation’s first Internet companies. He was inducted into the College of Computing Honor Academy on October 4, 2023. Furton then ran Sourcelight Technologies, a predictive analytics start-up building recommendation . . .
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Upendra Puntambekar
'95, '96Upendra (Upen) Puntambekar is vice president at Intel Corporation. He holds master’s degrees in applied physics and computer science from Michigan Technological University. Upen’s career started with Qualcomm covering various roles in design, development and commercialization efforts through the evolution of Qualcomm’s CDMA, 3G and 4G IP product portfolio. He was also the project engineer for Qualcomm’s Reference Design . . .
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Ricardo Nunez Cuesta
'24Ricardo Nunez graduated from Michigan Tech in 2024 with his BS in Computer Science. While a student, Nunez immediately took the skills and knowledge he learned and put them to use. In his last semester at Tech, he founded a startup—PaisaTax—and continued working on it full-time after graduation. Two years later, the startup received an acquisition offer and its first clients. Now, PaisaTax has four employees, including . . .
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