sujindar selvaraj

Software Engineer | Manchester United

[sujindar selvaraj @sujindar]

#cookuwithcomali - A show that made me laugh during the toughest phase of my life. Thank you @vijaytelevision @DisneyPlusHS @Pugazh_VijayTv

[Alex @AlexJonesax]

Spilled apple juice on my keyboard, so now I'm stress testing my CPU to evaporate it after the usual invert and kitchen towel regime

[sujindar selvaraj @sujindar]

@Cristiano You will always be my GOAT. I will love you forever ♥️

#CR7 #FIFAWorldCup

[sujindar selvaraj @sujindar]

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[Jay Yang @Jayyanginspires]

A piece of advice a mentor told me that's stuck with me: “Decide what kind of life you actually want. And then say no to everything that isn't that.”

[sujindar selvaraj @sujindar]

@imVkohli 💯 ❤️

[Arjun Jain | Fast Code AI @Arjunjain]

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗜 𝗰𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗳𝗼𝗿𝘁
August 2007. @Yahoo! Bangalore. I'm staring at my resignation draft.
₹1 lakh per month. Stock options. The golden handcuffs every middle-class kid dreams of.

But I'm suffocating.

Another content push. Another database migration. Another week moving avatars from server A to server B. My engineering degree screaming in protest.
My mouse hovers over 'Send'.

On the other side of this email: A €1,400/month internship at MICC - Media Integration and Communication Center in #Florence. No job security. No visa certainty. Just curiosity about computer vision and exploring the world beyond Bangalore.

I hit send.

My manager pulls me aside: "𝘈𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘱𝘪𝘥? You're leaving Yahoo! for... Italy? Do you know how many people would kill for your job?"

He wasn't wrong.

Six months later, I'm broke in #Florence. Can't get a job - wrong passport. The internship ends. I extend it because... what else? Go back to content pushes?

Apply to Columbia for PhD. They say no - bachelor's from RV College isn't enough. Masters? US/Europe fees impossible. Even "free" German programs need money for rent, food, family back home. Those doors slam shut.

𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲'𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆:
It's not Instagram-pretty. It's coding until 3 AM in a tiny Italian apartment, building computer vision models while others are at aperitivo. It's visa anxiety. It's everyone thinking you've lost your mind while you're grinding harder than ever - just on something that matters.

But curiosity compounds in ways comfort never can.

That "stupid" choice led to: → Saarland Graduate School (they had a program with stipend + PhD without Masters) → Max Planck Institute → Working with Chris Bregler → Yann LeCun becoming my office neighbor at NYU → Being there when deep learning exploded → Papers, patents, Apple, teaching at IIT, IISc

From content pushes to publishing with the godfather of AI.

𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗜 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗿. 𝗕𝗲𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗜 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀.

That Yahoo resignation? Best email ever.

Not because I knew where it would lead. But because I didn't. And that was the point.

Today, Fast Code AI is my latest curiosity experiment. Building the future of AI development. Still choosing the unknown over the comfortable. Still grinding. Still curious.

Comfort whispers: "You have so much to lose." Curiosity whispers back: "You have so much to learn."

To everyone suffocating in their comfortable cages, staring at their own resignation drafts, wondering if the leap is worth it:
Your curiosity is trying to tell you something.

Maybe it's time to listen.

What comfort are you choosing over curiosity right now?

Drop it below. Let's normalize choosing growth over golden handcuffs.

P.S. - "We wish you the very best in your future endeavors." They had no idea how right they were.

[sujindar selvaraj @sujindar]

iPhone AIR is incredible.. 🔥

#AppleEvent

[sujindar selvaraj @sujindar]

Readyyy #AppleEvent

[Dmitrii Kovanikov @ChShersh]

Strong men create C++
C++ creates good times
Good times create weak men
Weak men create Python
Python creates hard times
Hard times create strong men

[Suhail @Suhail]

You cannot force highly skilled people to work a set number of hours. They will just pretend to which is easy to do. They’ll read Reddit, make easy tasks stretch in time, have a longer lunch, longer meetings, etc. The only way I’ve seen or experienced seeing people work a lot of raw hours is because they believe what they are doing has mission, it challenges, users are scrambling for it, or it moves their soul somehow.

[Z Fellows @zfellows]

Steve Jobs: "Don't be a career.”

[Jay Yang @Jayyanginspires]

Kobe Bryant's trainer on his relentless focus:

[▪️ @ss_twtz]

அவ்வளவு பிழைகள்
செய்தவர்களே
வாழ்கிறார்கள்

நீ தோற்றுத்தானே போனாய்

வாழ் !

[Fernando @Franc0Fernand0]

The way you handle things is something that defines you.

Be humble when you win, and show kindness when you lose.

Think about what you learned and move on.

[Vijay @actorvijay]

உங்க விஜய் உங்க விஜய்
உயிரென வர்றேன் நான்

உங்க விஜய் உங்க விஜய்
எளியவன் குரல் நான்

உங்க விஜய் உங்க விஜய்
தனி ஆள் இல்ல கடல் நான்

[Fernando @Franc0Fernand0]

If you work hard and are nice to people, you can get very far in life.

Being kind and honest to everyone is a skill that isn't given enough credit.

[sujindar selvaraj @sujindar]

Let’s goo @ManUtd 👊