Kailash Nadh, CTO

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About Dr. Kailash Nadh
Dr. Kailash Nadh, Zerodha's CTO is famous for his countless side projects on his github, his blog that thousands of software engineers follow and for building the tech infra at Zerodha that is run by only 35 engineers but supports over 1 crore traders! Let's talk with him about hacker culture, working on open source projects, and how to scale up tech and tech teams with common sense

What is Software Engineering?
Software engineering is a branch of computer science that focuses on the design and development of computer systems and application software.
Software engineers are experts in programming languages, software development, and operating systems and they use engineering principles to create software.

Who are software engineers?
Software engineers are experts in programming languages and software development, and they use engineering techniques to produce software.

Coding projects
A coding project is a task or problem that can be solved using a programming language. These projects can range in complexity and scope, from simple scripts that perform a specific function, to large software applications with many features and capabilities. Coding projects are often used to learn new programming skills, develop solutions to real-world problems, or create software for personal or professional use.

What is a tech stack?
A tech stack is a combination of programming languages, frameworks, libraries, and tools used to develop a software application or platform. It includes both the front-end and back-end technologies, and can also refer to the specific versions of each component.

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Timeline

00:00 Teaser
02:10 Intro
03:00 A day in the life of Kailash Nadh
05:00 Writing code as a CTO
06:30 How to react to regulation as a Fintech team
09:40 Maintenance windows and reconciliation/settlement time for trading apps
13:20 How Zerodha manages with such a small team of 30 people in tech?
22:00 Tech Culture at Zerodha's Tech Team
25:00 How engineers can grow more to learn product/business domain
33:00 Why all companies must focus on better tech culture
35:00 Team dynamics that make tech teams grow better
39:40 Learn technology by building projects
46:00 Kailash's dns.toys side project and why he made it
50:30 Arnav's sharetime side project
54:45 Open source is important for engineers as well as orgs
1:04:00 Getting started with open source for those new to it
1:07:00 Hacker culture among Indian engineers
1:17:00 Open-source is, in a way, altruism
1:21:00 Future of tech in fintech domain
1:28:30 Why Zerodha picked Flutter for mobile?
1:36:00 (Arnav ranting about hyped up tech stacks 😅)
1:38:00 Zerodha's backend tech stack
1:46:00 When Zerodha first started using Go lang
1:49:00 Database choices, and Clickhouse and Postgres
1:52:00 Managed services vs doing things in-house
1:59:00 CI/CD setup at Zerodha
2:04:00 How to take good tech-stack choices early on?



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