Athul Kudva, an engineer from the National Institute of Technology, Karnataka, worked briefly at Tata Motors before cofounding Omnesys which developed highly scalable order and risk management software for traders and brokers across the country. Omnesys was acquired by media and information giant Thomson Reuters in 2013. Athul has been a very astute active investor and trader operating in the markets for multiple decades and brings with them more than 25 years of market experience. This market experience combined with technology insights has allowed him to work on building quant systems and tools which are used extensively by Samvitti in its fund management.