[ssiddharth]

The author is the CTO of Zerodha, India’s largest online brokerage. Not that it matters, just an observation.

[smarx007]

I thought they also OSSed a pretty solid https://github.com/frappe/helpdesk helpdesk but that was from Frappe, not Zerodha.

[isodev]

A CTO that codes? Interesting indeed.

[simonw]

That's pretty common in small companies. It's less common in large companies but can happen - you may use the "CTO" title for the founding engineer who still leads code and architecture, then hire someone under a different title (frequently "VP of Engineering") to handle the management / team growing side of the role.

[subscribed]

CTO in my company* remains SME on a several components, commits to several production repositories (and expects the most stringent PR checks), and maintains couple of small tool used by us and the customers.

Its not that rare I think.

*small fintech with couple of billions in the accounts, not a startup, not a Fortune 500 company