
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 class project became Gate Keypers.
I couldn’t help my grandmother then. The technology wasn’t there. It is now.
“All it takes is helping one grandma at a time, and treating every single one like she’s my own.”

