Pratik Shekhar
Co-Founder & CTO | Tech behind the rails of estate planning
- Role
- Co-founder & CTO at Simplytrust Estate Planning
- Location
- Chicago, IL, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Pratik Shekhar
As Co-Founder and CTO of SimplyTrust, we\'re turning a weeks-long estate planning process into something families complete in ~20 minutes for $15/month. We\'re live on the App Store and Google Play.Millions of families don\'t have a living trust — not because they don\'t need one, but because the process has been gated by cost and complexity. That\'s not just a legal problem. It\'s a design and accessibility problem.Previously, I scaled backend and platform systems at Adyen, Groupon, and startups — building fintech infrastructure, recommendation engines, and payments platforms across multiple markets. The technical work taught me systems design. The real education was learning what drives sustainable growth: teams aligned around customer impact, cultures that reward shipping over perfection, and leaders who invest deeply in people.My focus now is scaling SimplyTrust and building an engineering culture grounded in clarity, ownership, and customer obsession. I\'m especially passionate about mentoring product-minded engineers and supporting women in tech.
Experience
Co-founder & CTO
Mar 2025 — Present
Estate planning platform making revocable living trusts and essential legal documents accessible to families across all 50 states. Live on the App Store and Google Play.We built a $15/month platform that turns a weeks-long process into a ~20-minute experience — with state-specific compliance, remote online notarization, and free tools like Last Will & Testament, Healthcare Directive, and Power of Attorney that require no account or credit card. Built the technical foundation, product and engineering strategy, and team culture - focused on shipping what removes barriers for families who want to plan but have been blocked by cost and complexity.
Education
DTU - Technical University of Denmark
Masters of Science, Computer Science
2017 — 2017
Drexel University
Bachelors of Science, Computer Software Engineering
2014 — 2019
Drexel University
Masters of Science, Computer Software Engineering
2014 — 2019
Skills
- Photoshop
- Angularjs
- Pascal
- Experience in Public Speaking and Presentation
- Perfectionist, with a Desire to Learn New Things
- Powerpoint
- Microsoft Excel
- Ability to Take the Initiative When Required
- English
- Python
- Microsoft Word
- Html
- Microsoft Office
- Windows Live Movie Maker
- Css
- Mysql
- Awk
- Cascading Style Sheets (Css)
- Ruby on Rails
- Soft Skills
- Rspec
- C
- Skilled in Inter-Personal Communication and Negotiation
- Committed Team Player, with Flexible Approach to Work
- Coral
- Public Speaking
- Adobe
- C++
- Javascript
- Turbo C++
- Java
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