Kailash Nadh

Nadh obtained a BSc in Computer Science in 2008 and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence and Computational Linguistics in 2011 from Middlesex University. His doctoral work modeled associative memory using groups of simulated neurons, investigating tasks including language processing and spatial memory.[2][3]

Nadh says he started Zerodha’s technology team in 2013 and has served as CTO since then. He also co-founded FOSS United in 2020 to support free and open-source software communities in India. His personal projects extend that interest into software people can host and modify themselves. His project archive dates Listmonk to June 2019 and DictPress to August 2019, followed by the Telegram-to-website archiver tg-archive in 2021 and Oat in January 2026. These are distinct tools for publishing and operating information, rather than a single company product attributed to him.[2][4][4]

Listmonk combines a newsletter dashboard and mailing-list management in one application backed by PostgreSQL. DictPress publishes dictionaries through websites and an API, storing entries and relationships in SQLite and allowing language-specific search tokens. Oat styles native HTML elements with plain CSS and JavaScript, avoiding a framework dependency.[5][6][7]

In his January 2026 essay “Code is cheap. Show me the talk.”, Nadh argues that polished code and documentation no longer reveal the effort or judgment behind a project when models can generate them quickly. He describes using coding assistants to try ideas that previously cost too much time, while shifting his attention toward architecture, review and explanation. For open-source maintainers, he says provenance and accountable authorship become more valuable: someone still has to understand, validate and stand behind a contribution. This extends the practical emphasis of his small, self-hostable tools into a question about how software communities judge work.[8]