Kelechi Ukah

Kelechi Ukah is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Novig, a consumer gaming company based in New York, New York. At the commission-free sports betting exchange, he leads an engineering team of approximately 30 employees and oversees the development of the platform's high-frequency trading-style matching engine. Under his technical leadership, the Y Combinator-backed startup secured $6.4 million in a 2023 seed funding round led by Lux Capital and subsequently launched its mobile application in Colorado in early 2024. Prior to establishing Novig, Ukah worked as a Software Engineer at the quantitative trading firm Jane Street, where he developed financial technology solutions. He previously earned a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from Harvard University. His current focus centers on scaling consumer gaming experiences by applying institutional quantitative trading infrastructure to the retail sports betting industry.