I didn’t say much, but I noticed something: every time we hit a tech issue, Kevin was already quietly running diagnostics before anyone else even started panicking.
One day, our company’s website went *down*. Completely offline. During a major sales event. Leadership was losing it. The senior devs couldn’t trace the issue. Everyone was shouting over each other.
Kevin raised his hand and said, “I think it’s DNS poisoning.”
They laughed. Actually laughed at him.
But I remembered seeing Kevin poring over network security docs during lunch.
So I told the CTO, “Give him five minutes.”
He did.
Kevin pulled up the logs, traced the corrupted DNS entries, and found a misconfigured API call that had been exploited.
He fixed it.
*In three minutes.*
Website back online. Customers saved. Crisis averted.
Afterward, the same guys who mocked him were suddenly calling him “Kev the Savior.”
Me? I just gave him a nod and said, “Good work.”
A week later, the CTO offered Kevin a full-time position—double intern pay.
The moral?
Never judge someone by how they carry their coffee. Sometimes, the quietest person in the room already has the answers.
They’re just waiting for someone to listen.
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