Naveen, Vernon and Ric during the Cloud Random Number Generator brainstorming sessions |
With Naveen at our local brainstorming/ caffeine haunt. |
Photo of Naveen during one of our brainstorming sessions at Byron Bay where we had just fleshed out how to do Cloud Random Number Generation |
As a result most of the team comprises seasoned, experienced and quality centric professionals with extensive enterprise level experience. Naveen fits right in, which is really unexpected since Naveen is 26!
I scalped him from Ernst & Young, but that's not where I met him. Back in 2013 he was a budding entrepreneur that had arranged for some mentoring from me through the University NSW office of Commercialisation.
Photo from our first meeting |
We instantly became friends and I helped him through some teething problems with a project called Re-Align which came whisker close to being picked up in the US.
During that time we wrote a patent together and developed a form of shorthand for exchanging ideas and technology concepts that made him a no brainer when it came time to code the first iteration of the Haventec Auth technology.
What I thought would be a 3 month coding exercise was over in a week with Naveen sitting opposite me in a cafe showing me the first working prototype of what is now the Haventec Auth server... I was so dumbfounded that Naveen asked me what was wrong.
I had to confess that not only was I amazed that my invention worked without a hitch, but also that he had done it in 10 days working part time of an evening.
We recount this story often. It is a fond and bonding memory.
During that time we wrote a patent together and developed a form of shorthand for exchanging ideas and technology concepts that made him a no brainer when it came time to code the first iteration of the Haventec Auth technology.
What I thought would be a 3 month coding exercise was over in a week with Naveen sitting opposite me in a cafe showing me the first working prototype of what is now the Haventec Auth server... I was so dumbfounded that Naveen asked me what was wrong.
I had to confess that not only was I amazed that my invention worked without a hitch, but also that he had done it in 10 days working part time of an evening.
Naveen and I sharing insights as mentors for students at University of NSW. Crazy to think just how far Naveen has come in a few short years. |
Since then we have both been to mentoring sessions at UNSW where he and I have helped other students and now, whenever our boss Rob Morrish isn't pushing us to help deliver production code, we get to break the back of our big problems and to brainstorm new possibilities. Thus, the reason why a 26 year old is our chief engineer.
Good on you Naveen.
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