Dr. Kailash Nadh
Chief Technology Officer
2013 – Present
13 years (current)
Key Decisions & Impact
Joined Zerodha as CTO with a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from Middlesex University. Famously engineered the Kite trading platform from scratch using a lean, minimalist engineering team of under 35 developers. Outlawed heavy enterprise frameworks, cloud bloat, and proprietary black boxes in favor of open-source technologies (Go, Python, PostgreSQL, Vue.js), building a system capable of processing over 15% of all daily Indian stock market turnover with zero venture funding.
Legacy
The technological mastermind behind Kite and Rainmatter, revered across the Indian software engineering community for demonstrating that world-class financial software requires elite engineering discipline rather than massive headcounts.