Kailash Nadh, CTO ‪@zerodhaonline‬|Side projects, hacker culture and scaling with sense| SCALER POD 05

Welcome to #ScalerPod by Scaler where our host Arnav talks the leaders of the biggest tech companies from India about software engineering challenges they are solving! 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. 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. Timeline 🎓 Join a FREE live masterclass: https://www.scaler.com/events/?utm_so... ⏱ Chapters: 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? 1:38:00 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? 🎓 Explore Scaler programs (Live Classes, 1:1 Mentorship & Real-world Projects): Modern Software & AI Engineering: https://www.scaler.com/academy/?utm_s... AI Data Scientist & Machine Learning: https://www.scaler.com/data-science-c... DevOps, Cloud & AI Platform Engineering: https://www.scaler.com/devops-course/... Advanced AI/ML with Agentic AI Specialisation: https://www.scaler.com/ai-machine-lea... AI Engineering Advanced Certification by IIT Roorkee CEC: https://www.scaler.com/iit-roorkee-ad... ▶ Related videos: “Why is it Important to maintain a coding culture” - Ft. Kailash Nadh, CTO, @zerodhaonline:    • “Why is it Important to maintain a coding ...   @Cashfree.payments CTO Ramkumar Venkatesan | Scaling for $80B Payments Biggest Payout Handler | SCALER POD 23:    • @Cashfree.payments CTO Ramkumar Venkatesan...   SCALER POD 04 ft. Subhash Choudhary, CTO Dukaan | Building E-Commerce Cloud Infra for Millions:    • SCALER POD 04 ft. Subhash Choudhary, CTO D...   🎥 Related playlist:    • Scaler Pod | Builders, Systems & Decisions   🌐 Website: https://www.scaler.com/?utm_source=yo... 🔔 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/Scaler?sub_co... 📲 Connect: Instagram:   / scaler_official   Linkedin:   / scalerofficial   X (Twitter):   / scaler_official   Facebook:   / scalerofficial   About Scaler Scaler is one of India's leading tech education platforms helping aspiring software engineers and professionals build successful careers in Software Engineering, AI, Data Science, Machine Learning, DevOps, Cloud Computing, Cybersecurity, and Product Management. Learn from industry experts through live classes, personalized mentorship, hands-on projects, and a job-focused curriculum designed for the modern tech industry. #zerodha #scaler #podcast