This is me! Jason

Back then in 2007, I moved to Melbourne from Sydney for work. I think that was my first day in office. After firstday formalities I was told that I will be working for one highly respected person at ANZ , Hamish Talty. Hamish gave warmth welcome to ANZ and told me what I am supposed to work on. As part of regression testing, I have to read xml files stored as images from database but no idea how to do. Reading and writing blobs from databases is not as easy as inserting data to table. In my 5 years career many people gave partial or false information on reading blobs from database, all most all people whom so ever I approached either gave me some internet links or some document or something which is of no use. Hamish being so generous introduced me to one person who can help me in doing this; he was looking a bit fat than me, wearing half sleeves simple shirt, having his convocation photo in front of his desk. I requested him that I need help to retrieve xml’s from database and explained my problem in detail , I thought that it may take at least a week for him to help me partially just like others, to my surprise he read all thousands of xml’s in few minutes time and send me the link where I can access those xml files. That’s the first time I met a person who can play with database blobs, obviously he was looking a like a hero to me as I was looking forward for such person. His name is Jason, Jason Raynar.


As part of work, me and my teammates used to develop many things, when ever we were stuck up with some technical issue , if me my teammates or internet cann’t solve that problem then Jason is there. Like that I used to meet him quite often. If I approached he never disappointed, one of the best quality in Jason is he helps you till you become fully comfortable with his solution, he helps you 100%. In my every interaction with him he is looking so different and better than he was before. He is so much passionate about everything he do, he try to automate things where everyone waste time in doing things repeatedly and manually, he thinks out of the possibilities, his thoughts starts where most of others thoughts ends, highly self motivated, he lives every second of life with passion and purpose, … he can alone develop any technical product with THE BEST performance if opportunity given. His passion motivates others to achieve better results, That’s partial technical side of Jason which I know.

Jason as a person is amazing. He is so simple and down to earth, never showoff for anything, very caring for people whom he cares for, When ever people are crossing office door with him he always let others to go with his welcoming words “after you” which is welcome sign for helping hand, I think whom so ever working with Jason are the luckiest people as you don’t get a better person than Jason to work for in every way.

My life changed completely after meeting him, It’s not his technical skills but his working style and positive attitude inspired me a lot. I learned how to think out of the possibilities, how to be modest and simple and how to be a better human. Inspiration I took from him continuing in me in most of the things I do. The reason for writing this blog is yesterday I gave a presentation to the entire bank’s teams at my workplace, so many accolades came and coming in my way for my new initiatives, I am inundated with that recognition, if I look back Jason is the person who inspired me for all this. Unknowingly I do remember him everyday at work. On this earth one of the great thing happened to me is meeting Jason, I feel happy about this just before I die also, if at all god exists I am thankful to him for creating Jason.

I meet so many better people in life , everyone looks better for me as mostly I look at better side of the individual, but I meet Jason like people rarely , he is unique and best.

He presented me a microwave teddy bear while I was leaving Australia, which is next to me while I am writing this blog.

PS: This is me! Jason----- this was the first mail subject received from him. This is the only photo I have as hard disk with all photos crashed recently.