Kailash Nadh
nadh.in · Personal blog · on HN since 2013
Kailash Nadh, CTO of Zerodha, writes about software development, the JavaScript ecosystem, AI hype, open indexes and technology in India.
What HN saysHN commenters admire his projects and blog, noting a CTO who builds open source for fun, and link posts on LLMs and frameworks.
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kretaceous · 2022-07-06
I'm a fan of Kailash Nadh's projects[1] and blog[2].
The CTO of such a large company takes his time to make little projects for fun and OSS, says a lot about how good the company's dev culture is.
I also find it amusingly wholesome that his GitHub about says "Hobbyist Developer" before "CTO @Zerodha".
He also volunteers at 2 Indian non-profits. What an amazing person!
1: https://github.com/knadh
2: https://nadh.in
knadh · 2026-01-14
swiftcoder · 2026-02-15
The motivating blog post[1] linked from the front page is probably going to generate a more interesting discussion than the framework itself.
As someone who has to deal with both angular and nextjs for different (but overlapping) stacks at work, I find myself increasingly sympathetic to this viewpoint.
[1]: https://nadh.in/blog/javascript-ecosystem-software-development-are-a-h…
abhimskywalker · 2024-12-06
Youtube talk from Kailash Nadh, CTO of Zerodha: largest retail stock broker in India) Talk slides here: https://nadh.in/files/indiafoss-2024-dungbeetle.pdf
earthboundkid · 2023-05-17
https://nadh.in/blog/this-time-it-feels-different/ No shade on the author. It just seems like an apt metaphor for how we get blinded by LLMs.