[Techie Tuesdays] Rinish K N - From the school of conventional, strong and reliable software programming

Sometimes, good old experience is very understated. In this world of 18 years olds discovering supercapacitors that will recharge your batteries in 30 seconds, the world looks for these outliers to celebrate and cherish. Our own Techie Tuesdays has been guilty of it to an extent - with young college dropouts going on to prove their worth, good old, traditional hard work is somewhere

forgotten.In compensation, today's Techie Tuesday is one such person. No extraordinary growth, no prodigal computer skills. Rinish K N, CTO and co-founder of Cochin and Bangalore based mobile development company, RapidValue Solutions, has made it, with pure work ethic, dedication and sincerity, the conventional way.

Humble beginnings 

Rinish has over 13 years of experience in the IT industry. But like quite a few whom we've covered in this column, Rinish is quick to admit that he didn't start to code seriously until college. He says, "I knew little about BASIC before coming to college. But it was in college that I started to take programming."

After graduating from the university of Kerala in 2000, Rinish took the conventional route. Like scores of graduates from Kerala who took up a corporate job after college, Rinish would soon join Oracle as a junior engineer and would make his way up the ranks, all the way to system architect.

Building reliable systems from scratch 

Being a coder is one thing. But being a computer scientist is another. While there are many who can write code in multiple languages, without adhering to the basics of computer science, it won't amount to anything. To build great systems, you need someone with a great understanding of how software works and Rinish is that guy.

Rinish shared that he specialized in building scalable system architecture, which in layman's terms, means that he could build systems that wouldn't succumb to any kind of load in terms of traffic. In his career spanning twelve years, Rinish has worked on building architectures for Oracle products and e-Commerce solutions for Fortune500 companies.

The startup bug 

At the prime of his professional career came along an invention that would entice many a technologist to work on it - the smartphone. Rinish too was one of them. Intrigued by this new platform, Rinish was quick to realize that it would be the platform of the future. But he did a step further from what others usually do; he chose to start up.

Rinish shared that he didn't want to just work on a platform; he wanted more. After having identified a market with great potential, Rinish and his co-founders had chosen to go down the path of entrepreneurship But Rinish quipped, "I still code everyday and am very much involved in most of the daily software development operations of the company." You could tell that there was a sense of pride in how he spoke.

The real reason

At the end of the conversation, Rinish shared that he is still involved with his college and works very closely with his alma mater. He said, "If you look at the students today, they have so much more access to computers and technology. They're skilled also. But they have an attitude problem. Most youngster's don't know what they have, because if they did, they can really do so much more."

I believe our education system is getting diluted with the increase in demand for education. In these situations, there needs to be a fair amount of emphasis on being conventional and putting in hard work, without questioning too much, for that is where architects like Rinish come from.

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