Prashanth Shenoy Katpady

CEO

Mangaluru, Karnataka, India17 yrs 8 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Co-founded a successful LegalTech startup.
  • Awarded Outstanding Leadership in LegalTech.
  • Recognized as a key influencer in the business of law.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and LegalTech expert with strong capabilities in cloud architecture and data engineering.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software DevelopmentCloud ArchitectureApi DesignData EngineeringData AnalyticsAi DevelopmentDevopsCloud DeploymentNetwork Security

Other Skills

PythonLinuxDistributed SystemsC++MySQLDjangoAlgorithmsNetworkingObject Oriented DesignCDatabasesBig DataAmazon Web Services (AWS)Amazon EC2Communication Protocols

About

Prashanth Co-Founded UniCourt Inc in 2014, a #LegalTech SaaS solution that provides easy access to US Court Cases As Chief of Technology, his role is to design, architect and deploy cloud native applications to meet the Product’s need. With a keen interest in structuring unstructured Public Data, he spends most of his time to figure out how to democratise Legal Data and connect it to other public data sets using AI, to make it more accessible and useful. Prashanth also started Hackerspace Mangaluru, a community which holds workshops and talks on technology for students and professionals with a goal to build a lively tech ecosystem in Mangaluru. ▶ Awarded Outstanding Leadership for the contribution in the field of Law and LegalTech at the Law 2.0 Conference, Dubai in Dec 2022 ▶ Listed in Asia Law Portal's "30 People to Watch in the Business of Law in Asia in 2022" https://asialawportal.com/2021/12/09/30-people-to-watch-in-the-business-of-law-in-asia-in-2022/ ▶ UniCourt won the Practice Management Innovation Award at LegalWeek 2024 https://www.law.com/2024/01/29/the-2024-legalweek-leaders-in-tech-law-awards-winners-are-here/ ▶ UniCourt wins the 2023 American Legal Technology Awards in the category for Enterprise Legal Tech Product https://unicourt.com/blog/american-legal-technology-awards-2023/ ▶ UniCourt listed in Law360 Pulse as one of the seven legal tech companies to watch in 2022 https://unicourt.com/blog/seven-legaltech-companies-2022/ ▶ UniCourt wins 2021 LegalTech Breakthrough Awards for Overall LegalTech Data Solution Provider https://unicourt.com/blog/legaltech-breakthrough-awards-2021/ ▶ UniCourt wins the Technology category for 2021 American Legal Technology Awards https://unicourt.com/blog/american-legal-technology-award-2021/

Experience

17 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
8 yrs 8 mos
Average Tenure
15 yrs
Current Experience

Karnataka digital economy mission

Advisory Panel Member - Mangaluru Cluster (Beyond Bengaluru)

Mar 2021Present · 5 yrs 2 mos · Mangaluru, Karnataka, India

Unicourt

CTO, Co-Founder

Jun 2014Present · 11 yrs 11 mos · Greater Los Angeles Area

  • Leadership:
  • ▶ Built multiple teams from 0 - 100+ engineers
  • Technical:
  • ▶ Architected an API-First architecture to pipe out structured and enriched Legal Data through REST API and WSS with documentation on Swagger and Voyager. Built a culture of API design and documentation first for API governance.
  • ▶ Architected a Data Collection Engine which supports building web scrapers from different sources to aggregate unstructured data & standardize it
  • ▶ Architected a multi-tiered data pipeline for data sets to flow from a data collection engine, a search engine, a normalization engine & an analytics engine to a data interaction platform
  • ▶ Architected a normalization engine to support named entity recognition and name similarity measures to cluster entities using AI to generate analytics
  • ▶ Migrated monolith apps to micro-services & achieved parallel development of features. This helped scale development & reduced time to deployment to move features to production faster with larger teams.
  • ▶ CI\CD: Adopted Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery in the product's SDLC by working with every team to port apps to work on Docker & deploy on Kubernetes #K8s
  • ▶Growth Hacking: Supported organic growth by "Engineering Marketing" to drive traffic through SEO - by building pages with load time < 60ms by benchmarking page speed and accessibility for desktop/mobile
Software DevelopmentPythonLinuxDistributed SystemsC++MySQL+35

Mangalore infotech (unicourt india)

Founder

May 2011Present · 15 yrs · Mangalore, India

Opnet technologies

Software Engineer

Feb 2008Oct 2010 · 2 yrs 8 mos

  • I was part of the team which developed a product called Sentinel. The core area of focus was network auditing, security, regulatory policy compliance and network diagramming.
  • ▶ Presented two introductory classes on OPNET's Sentinel, the project I was working on, to an audience of more than 40 in OPNET's annual conference OPNETWORK-2010, held in D.C.
  • ▶ Implemented ISIS Protocol Network Diagramming for NetMapper
  • ▶ Implemented Sentinel Advisory Service to support download of patch files from the SAS server and install on the local machine by backing up the older files with the ability to revert back to the last stable state in case of problems during download or installation of the patch files
  • ▶ Implemented MPLS LSP walks in L2/L3 Graph Walks
  • ▶ Worked extensively on NetMapper, NetDoctor and Network Differences, OS Compliance engines and reports
  • ▶ Was involved in partly implementing Host Support for OPNET in NetDoctor, NetMapper and Network Differences
  • ▶ Hands on experience with configuring various protocols and policies on Cisco and Juniper routers as a part of research to develop rules for the same on NetDoctor and NetMapper
  • ▶ Technologies worked
  • C, C++
  • Python
  • Google Web Toolkit
  • Flex ActionScript 3
  • HTML/CSS/Javascript
CC++PythonGoogle Web ToolkitFlex ActionScript 3HTML/CSS/Javascript+2

Education

University of Southern California

Masters of Science — Computer Science

Jan 2006Jan 2007

N M A M Institute of Technology, NITTE

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) — Computer Science

Jan 2001Jan 2005

Visvesvaraya Technological University

Bachelor of Engineering — Computer Science

Jan 2001Jan 2005

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