Kumar: Accenture needed 18 people to replace his UK healthcare work
Saravana Kumar · MUST WATCH for Indians Abroad - Remote Work, House Help & More | Kovai.co Founder | Neon Show · Jan 26, 2024 · at 9:01
Kovai.co founder Saravana Kumar discusses his early engineering career in the UK prior to bootstrapping his enterprise software company.
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“Accenture won this biggest contract for healthcare in UK. So they are connecting every single doctors and hospitals together. And there are so many vendors involved, like healthcare vendors, and they will come and deploy something and that will break the core system. And every time there's a lot of delay in testing and everything. So I built a simulator for all these external vendors. I just started as a hobby thing, you know, nobody asked me to do it. I just started in the weekends and I was just doing it. And gradually that became like a core, one of the core things for the entire project. That's like a few billion dollars worth of project. And finally, Accenture had to put like 18, 20 people to replace me.”
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