# Prashant Mahajan

> Prashant Mahajan is the New York-based co-founder and CTO of Privado AI, a privacy engineering company founded in 2020. An early PubMatic engineer who later became a senior engineering director, he carried lessons from high-scale advertising systems into a new problem: making personal-data flows visible from source code, then turning that evidence into continuously updated privacy controls.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CTO at Privado AI
- **Organizations:** Privado AI, PubMatic, Symantec
- **Education:** Computer science studies, Fergusson College, Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, HAL College of Science, Higher Secondary Certificate, KTHM College
- **Known for:** Was employee number one at PubMatic and later became Senior Director of Engineering during a nine-year tenure., Co-founded Privado AI in 2020 around privacy code scanning and continuous data mapping., Helped Privado reach a $14 million Series A and $17.5 million total funding announced in 2022.

## Career timeline

- **Before 2010** — Worked at Symantec before joining PubMatic.
- **c. 2010-2019** — Joined PubMatic as its first employee and spent nine years there, ultimately serving as Senior Director of Engineering.
- **2020** — Co-founded Privado AI with Vaibhav Antil and Jasdeep Cheema to bring privacy controls into software development.
- **2022** — Privado announced $17.5 million in total funding, including a $14 million Series A co-led by Insight Partners and Sequoia Capital India.
- **2022** — Privado was named a North America and Latin America finalist for the IAPP Innovation Awards.
- **2024** — Published Privado's approach to combining static code analysis and generative AI to automate Records of Processing Activities.
- **2025** — Supported the announcement of Privado AI's strategic privacy-compliance partnership with KPMG in India.

## Achievements

- Was employee number one at PubMatic and later became Senior Director of Engineering during a nine-year tenure.
- Co-founded Privado AI in 2020 around privacy code scanning and continuous data mapping.
- Helped Privado reach a $14 million Series A and $17.5 million total funding announced in 2022.
- Helped build a platform that TechCrunch reported was monitoring more than 600,000 code commits in 2022.
- Led technical thinking on using static analysis plus generative AI to automate processing-activity descriptions without sending an entire application to an AI model.
- Privado was selected as a 2022 IAPP Innovation Awards finalist for North America and Latin America.

## Latest updates

- **2024-05** — Published an explanation of Privado's generative-AI-assisted RoPA automation, combining code context with generated processing descriptions.
- **2025-03** — Shared Privado AI's strategic partnership with KPMG in India around real-time privacy governance and India's DPDP framework.
- **2026-09** — Continues to serve as Privado AI's CTO and co-founder and is listed among the speakers for the company's Bridge 2026 privacy event.

## Links

- Website: https://www.privado.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prashantsmahajan

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Last updated: 2026-09-27