Brief History of Me

My name is Reza Naima, I live in San Fracisco with my dog, Kepler. After acquiring my BS in Bioengineering from University of California, San Diego in '96, I decided rather than pursuing my original goal of medical school (and yes, I did get accepted), I would do some work on Computers.

My first job was at Cisco Systems running web security in the system administration team. Although I had no experience in compute security, all it took was using some common sense -- something that developers at cisco seemed to lack. I only spent a year there till I got bored, then hit Western Europe for a few months. Since then I've worked at a few more startups and traveled quite a bit more. /p>

In 2001 I gave up on making my millions off an IPO and I quit my job at Mark Andreson's Loudcloud company. It was a pretty fun day -- I ditched work with a friend to go watch a car race at Sears Point and I quit over the cell with cars roaring in the background.

A few weeks later conviced another coworker that he should quit as well and that we should do hardware instead. The thought was to bulid a data aquisition device for bicyclists. We spent a year teaching ourselfs embedded systems and moved into a corner of an office near the train station in San Francisco. It took us a lot longer than expected to come up with a working device (mostly due to my unamed (*cough*jake*cough) partner spending more time checking out www.ismykittyhotornot.com than actually doing any work). But we did it, and it worked. But we didn't know what to do next so we moved on.

The year working wasn't a waste however, as I walked away with a fairly solid understanding of digital electronics and embedded systems. It wasn't long before I was approached by a company that wanted me to build an interfaces to talk to the OBD2 port of contemporary vehicles. However, they really had no idea what they were doing, feature creep became a huge problem, and they ended up having all sort of issues (though my hardware/firmware was solid). I'm not sure what happened to them, but they were a great example of what not to do (with your father-in-laws money).

About a year later, I was hit by a drunk driver doing over 60 while I was on a bicycle. I was helicoptered to the hospital and narrowly avoided severe brain damage. It was also during the same time frame when my
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