Hyderabad boy Keerti Melkote has just got gold in California, IT giant Hewlett-Packard on Monday declared that it is buying Aruba Networks, the company Keerti founded in 2002, for nearly $3 billion. Aruba is a wireless networking gear for enterprises, competing against the likes of Cisco.

Keerti, who studied in Karnataka Sikshana Samiti’s Nrupatunga Junior College in Hyderabad, and further went on to study at Purdue University, is not only in for a multi-million dollar payout.

From the deal, but he and Aruba’s recent chief executive officer Dominic Orr will also move into HP to run its networking business, one of the IT giant’s businesses that never took off but now is an enterprises increasingly adopting mobility.

Enterprise networks are increasingly being built around a ‘mobile first’ architecture, and that’s where we make sense for HP. This is a good deal for us, too, because HP will give us a worldwide presence and customers,” Keerti told.