Gulaam Karanie
Colibri Digital is a technology consultancy company founded in 2015 by James Cross and Ingrid Funie. The company works to help its clients navigate the rapidly changing and complex world of emerging technologies, with deep expertise in areas such as big data, data science, machine learning, and cloud computing. Over the past few years, they have worked with some of the world's largest and most prestigious companies, including a tier 1 investment bank, a leading management consultancy group, and one of the World's most popular soft drinks companies, helping each of them to make better sense of its data and process it in more intelligent ways. The company lives by its motto: Data -> Intelligence -> Action.
Gulaam Karanie has been in the I.T. industry for 26 years but decided to add Java programming to his skills fairly late in his career as a software developer.
He started out on the mainframe using COBOL, CICS, and DB2 building online banking solutions for a large South African Bank. After about 13 years, he moved to a SAP environment, and worked with SAP PI and SAP ABAP. The focus of his development was CRM, and he spent 4 years in this environment.
His next move was to IT architecture, where he worked on both integration architectures and solution architectures for the bank. After a few short years in architecture, he yearned to get back to his true I.T. passion - development but decided to take on a language that he always wanted to learn, Java. Been doing Java now for two years and believe that he has found his true calling.
