The people at the door.

I was raised by my grandmother in Scarborough while my parents worked. She called me Vin Kuti, “little one.” Years later, Alzheimer’s came for her. We’d sit and have whole conversations, and then she’d turn and ask, “Where’s Vin?” I was right there.

The technology to help her didn’t exist. I know, because I spent fifteen years inside healthcare. I started as a pharmacy assistant at Shoppers Drug Mart and worked my way up to leading product for Medisystem, the pharmacy platform inside long-term care homes across Canada. Then I became Director of Technology at a law firm, the first job where protecting what’s behind a door wasn’t a feature, it was the whole point.

And when life knocked me down, I rebuilt from the bottom: night shifts, back to school for cybersecurity. One morning I forgot my badge and let myself into a secure building with a $200 gadget, and nobody noticed. That is where GateKeypers started.

I couldn’t help my grandmother then. The technology wasn’t there. It is now.

I grew up breaking things to understand them. Back in India, I competed in capture-the-flag hacking competitions, attacking systems, defending them, learning exactly how they fail. I came to Canada as a student, and in a cybersecurity classroom in Oshawa I met a guy with a cloned badge and a crazy idea. I built the hardware side of that project. I haven’t stopped building since.

On August 7, 2026, a door unlocked for a room full of investors. No fob, no band, no badge, no phone. It ran on hardware I built with my own hands. That same day, I worked the last shift at my old job. The door opened. I walked through it.

I’m employee number one. I sign my emails “Director of Broken Code,” because in hardware, honesty is the job. I’ll tell you exactly what doesn’t work yet. And the next device we ship has to be beautiful, not just functional. It’s going into someone’s home. Maybe one day, the home of someone I love.