Prashanth Katpady
CTO, Co-Founder at Mangalore Infotech (UniCourt India)
Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolPrashanth Katpady is a seasoned technology founder and CTO with 11+ years building cloud-native, API-first LegalTech platforms from the ground up. As co-founder of UniCourt, he architected scalable data pipelines and normalization engines that turn unstructured public court records into enriched, searchable datasets and developer-friendly APIs, and led the company from a small team to 100+ engineers. He combines deep systems and data engineering expertise—microservices, Kubernetes, CI/CD, web scraping and NER-based entity clustering—with a growth-hacking sensibility that optimized performance and SEO to drive organic adoption. An award-winning leader recognized at Law 2.0 Dubai and across LegalWeek and American Legal Technology Awards, he also cultivates regional tech ecosystems through Hackerspace Mangaluru and advisory work for Karnataka’s digital mission. Notably, his work focuses on democratizing legal data by linking court records to other public datasets using AI, making traditionally siloed information actionable for developers and legal professionals.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Science Computer Science, Masters of Science Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor of Engineering Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering Computer Science at Visvesvaraya Technological UniversityBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science at N M A M Institute of Technology, NITTE
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Github Skills (35)
amazon7
fuse7
filesystem7
legaltech7
s3fs6
aws-s36
amazon-s36
vfs6
portal5
cloud-storage5
aws5
javascript4
openstack-swift4
api4
elasticsearch-client3
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
UniCourt/enterprise-api-py-sdk
Mar 2023 - Sep 2024
A Python SDK for UniCourt's Enterprise API
Contributions:3 releases, 17 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 5 months
court-casescourt-judgmentcourtslegallegal-analytics-and-data-science
UniCourt/Website-Workshop4
Jun 2022 - Sep 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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