Kailash Nadh

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India24 yrs 4 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Over two decades of experience in software development.
Founder of multiple impactful non-profit organizations.
CTO of India's largest stock broker, Zerodha.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in Fintech and Open Source technology.

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ProgrammingComputational LinguisticsArtificial IntelligenceEntrepreneurshipWeb DevelopmentPythonJavaScriptJavaC++LinuxCSSMySQLHTML 5PHPRuby

About

Hobbyist software developer and FOSS hacker for more than two decades. Started tech@Zerodha, India's largest stock broker. Part of the Rainmatter Foundation, FOSS United Foundation, Indic Digital Archive Foundation, and Samagata Foundation.

Experience

24 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

6 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

12 yrs 10 mos

Current Experience

Samagata foundation

Founder

Oct 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Samagata supports projects and ideas, even the little ones, that bring value to society. We work across areas including science, culture, art, technology, education, and research with a specific focus on the creation of public commons, institutions, and community spaces that enables the coming together of ideas and sparks of creation.

Indic digital archive foundation

Co-Founder

May 2022 – Present · 4 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Indic Digital Archive Foundation is a non-profit organisation that works on digital archival and preservation of Indic language cultural artefacts such as books, publications, and documents, making them available for open access.

Foss united

Co-Founder

Jul 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

We setup the FOSS United Foundation to support Free and Open Source (FOSS) projects and communities in India. FOSS United runs community programs and events and provides funding to FOSS projects.

Rainmatter foundation

Co-Founder

Jan 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

We setup the Rainmatter Foundation to support organisations and causes focusing on climate change, ecology, and livelihoods tied to them. We have committed much of the resources at Zerodha to the foundation.

Zerodha

CTO

Jul 2013 – Present · 12 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Hobbyist software developer heading technology at Zerodha. We started Zerodha Tech in 2013, where we have been building a technology and product stack for the capital markets ever since.

Lumean

Technical Advisor

Oct 2010 – Dec 2015 · 5 yrs 2 mos · London, United Kingdom

Technical consultant at Lumean, a small tech firm that provided niche technology services to clients including NHS, SAB Miller, Vodafone et al.

Middlesex university

Consultant

Oct 2008 – Oct 2011 · 3 yrs · London, United Kingdom

Resident consultant responsible for the development of some of the university's academic outreach programmes and various other software. Also served as a teaching assistant for a few months, teaching data warehousing and business intelligence to 3rd year MSc. students.

Independent

Developer / Consultant

Jan 2002 – Jan 2013 · 11 yrs

Over a decade of experience consulting for many hundred clients across the world in various capacities as a full stack developer, architect, and advisor in areas spanning consumer tech, govt. projects, research and academia, telecom, finance, banking and e-commerce and more.