Profiles

Grant Finnemore was employed by GuruHut at the very beginning of the company’s existence. Today, as an owner and director, he has made his mark on the company, shaping the vision to create a working environment in which his staff are self-defining, free to be creative and take responsibility for their work and their actions, and in which creative enterprise solutions are delivered to clients in an ethical, cost-effective and deadline-driven way.

As a Java™ developer himself, he is able to truly understand his clients’ needs as well as the possibilities of what GuruHut can do for them – there is no division between what is promised and what can be delivered.

He has over 15 years’ experience in the production of software, and was an early adopter of Java™ technologies, and has an exhaustive knowledge of most contemporary frameworks and libraries. He has been deeply involved in architecting and re-architecting enterprise systems and is keenly interested in building creative and flexible solutions to difficult problems.

Along with Grant, Leonard was one of the early employees of GuruHut and is now an owner and director of the company. It is their joint vision that ensures that GuruHut is a fantastic company to work for and do business with.

A talented software architect and consultant with over 18 years’ of practical development experience, Leonard has managed large, mission-critical development projects as well as smaller intensive development efforts. He has also been involved in the business analysis of many large projects for well-known companies.

In his travels Leonard has emerged from the C++ and early windows world into the 21st century with a solid footing in the Java™ Enterprise development environment. He has also gained extensive experience in various development methodologies and techniques and covered the entire spectrum of the SDLC from business analysis to implementation.

Leonard has worked for organisations in the retail, banking, medical and management spheres and has a depth of practical knowledge to underpin his current consulting and architecture role at GuruHut.

John is a solutions man who likes to roll up his sleeves and get things done. On one hand, he has the vision to conceptualise new capabilities at GuruHut; on the other, he has the practical experience and pragmatic determination to make it happen.

John has 18 years’ experience in the financial services industry, spanning multiple banks and divisions, and more recently has worked in the retail and public-sector spaces. This has given him far-reaching insight in terms of work and project experience.

Among other responsibilities, he is presently project managing the delivery of one of the largest BPM implementations done to date in South Africa. This has given him the collective experience of both the corporate world and of specific methodologies, positioning him ideally to make new things happen at GuruHut.

He says that on one or two occasions in his life, he has been fortunate enough to be a part of organisations with characteristics that make it a pleasure to work there. GuruHut – with its flat structure, good people, and lack of hierarchy and politics – is one such company.

Time permitting; John enjoys mountain biking, rock climbing and paragliding.