“I remember walking out of my final exam, completely defeated, and telling myself I’d never work in that specific field again,” recalls Amir Ahmad. He smiles now, a successful Senior Manager at a global company, realizing the greatest lesson he took from GIKI wasn’t a formula or a technical skill, but the simple, brute force knowledge that he could not quit. That exam, he explains, wasn’t a measure of knowledge, but a test of sheer mental endurance.
The intensity of GIKI—the late nights, the challenging coursework, the race against the deadline and the Topi air itself—didn’t just train him to be an engineer; it trained him to be a resilient leader. “It taught me that when you hit a wall, you don’t look for a detour; you just find a heavier hammer,” he says. Today, he channels that same relentless GIKI focus into breaking down massive, complex organizational problems that others shy away from. For Amir, his job is less about managing people and more about being the chief debugger for large-scale corporate challenges. “The problems are different now,” he concludes, “but the mindset is exactly the same: isolate the bug, fix it quickly, and never let the darkness discourage you.”