Kishore Neelamegam

Kishore Neelamegam is the Chief Technology Officer at Lendsmart, where he leads the development of Lendsmart’s lending and home buying technology, including their centralized platform for loan origination and artificial intelligence driven underwriting tool.

Kishore is a technology leader with over 24 years of experience spanning across mainframes, cloud, blockchain, and artificial intelligence. Prior to Lendsmart, Kishore founded Megam Vertice, an open source startup creating an easy way to launch apps, services, and analytics in the cloud. Megam was acquired by Rio Advancement in 2018. Kishore went on to also co-found Rio/OS’ cloud operating system for private data centers.

Kishore spent nearly a decade working at IBM where he built a java-based tool to automate, build, and ship IBM’s mainframe products, like DB2. As a design manager, Kishore was responsible for the architecture and integration of over 40 airport systems at the Mumbai International Airport in India. He also worked at Northwest Airlines (now Delta Airlines) as a mainframe programmer where he supported the inventory application running the Mainframe environment.

Kishore is an international speaker and has presented at several conferences, including Salesforce’s Dreamforce and OpenNebula’s cloud conferences. Kishore holds a patent titled, “Building Data Security in a Networked Computing Environment”. He graduated with a Bachelors of Engineering in Electronics from PSG College of Technology in Coimbatore, India.