Kimeshan Naidoo
Co-Founder & CTO at Familiar
Belgrade Metropolitan Area Serbia
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Top SchoolKimeshan Naidoo is a founder and technical leader with 11 years of experience scaling engineering organizations and products from zero to mature, having helped raise over $30M and grow businesses to $10M ARR while serving millions of users. As Co-Founder & CTO of Familiar and former CTO of Unibuddy and BX, he specializes in fast-paced, metrics-driven delivery—driving daily deployments, high throughput systems (7,000 RPS), and AI-driven data platforms that supported 100k+ acres of farms and 3M+ users across 650 institutions. He builds the people-side of engineering too, growing teams to 50+ engineers and designing scalable processes including OKRs, career frameworks, and security practices. Comfortable at the executive and board level, he pairs product-first technical architecture with fundraising and due diligence experience. Based in Belgrade with roots in South Africa and training from UCL and UCT, he also invests time in education and social impact initiatives, notably founding the Vejayanthran Education Fund. An operator who values humility and radical candor, he pushes teams toward elite performance through measurable delivery.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Cape TownUniversity College London
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (56)
mixpanel9
npm9
facebook9
profile-picture9
mongodb9
pymongo8
react8
reactive-programming8
avatar8
build-system8
javascript8
nodejs8
testing8
realtime8
lexer7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kimeshan/mf-proto
Dec 2015 - Dec 2017
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
kimeshan/mixpanel-puller
Feb 2015 - Feb 2018
Contributions:13 commits, 3 PRs, 6 pushes in 3 years
postgresqlpostgresfunnelmixpanel
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