S3 E7: Kimeshan Naidoo, Unibuddy

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Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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🗓️ 1 September 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Kimeshan Naidoo grew up in a small sugar can farming town, on the east coast of South Africa. At 12 years old, he found an old python book, installed Python... and started to teach himself how to code. Five years ago, he moved to London to study for his masters in Computer Science at UCL. He is a triathlete, completing his first triathlon last year - and is planning to complete an olympic triathlon and eventually, an iron man race. He and his co-founder both moved from different countries to London, but didn't really know what to expect. They met up for a coffee to discuss an idea, which immediately spoke to Kimeshan - as he lived out the problem they were trying to solve when he moved to London. They decided to move forward and build a platform that embeds chat capabilities for high school or prospective university students to chat with current students at a particular school. In fact, Naidoo built the first version as his dissertation project. This is the creation story of Unibuddy. Our Sponsors: * Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com * Check out Red Hat: https://www.redhat.com * Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORY Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	We find customer feedbacks really useful for the small improvements and the incremental improvements.
0:08.4	But to develop big new products for really significantly different features, you need to base this on your strategy.
0:18.6	But of course, we did neglect the infrastructure side and the technical debt side.
0:23.6	We've had to respond to that, especially in the last six months, because we went into lockdown, our traffic increased by 1,000%.
0:29.0	And all of a sudden, we realized we didn't have the infrastructure or the kind of testing and reliability measures in place to deal with this.
0:37.6	My name is Kimmer Shun Naidu, and I'm one of the co-founders and CTO of Unibody.
0:47.6	This is Code Story, a podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries
0:52.9	who share in the critical moments of what
0:55.7	it takes to change in industry and build and lead a team that has your back.
1:02.3	I'm your host, Noel Aft, and today how Kimmisham-Naidu created a product to help prospecting
1:08.4	students connect with peers to gain university inside.
1:13.5	All this and more on Coat Story.
1:24.1	Kimmishon-Naydu grew up in a small sugar sugar cane farming town on the east coast of South Africa.
1:30.3	At 12 years old, he found an old Python book, installed Python, and started to teach himself how to code.
1:37.7	Five years ago, he moved to London to study for his master's in computer science at UCL.
1:42.8	He is a triathlete, completing his first triathlon last year,
1:46.8	and is planning to complete an Olympic triathlon and eventually an Ironman race.
1:52.7	He and his co-founder both moved from different countries to London, but didn't really know
1:56.4	what to expect.
1:58.0	They met up for a coffee to discuss an idea which immediately spoke to Kimmichon, as he lived out the problem they were trying to expect. They met up for a coffee to discuss an idea which immediately spoke to Commission,
2:02.5	as he lived out the problem they were trying to solve when he moved to London.
2:06.8	They decided to move forward and build a platform that embeds chat capabilities for high school
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