Vipul Ved Prakash

Vipul Ved Prakash
Vipul Ved Prakash in 2012
Born	New Delhi, India
Residence	San Francisco, California, U.S.
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	Software Engineer, Internet entrepreneur
Website	vipul.net

Vipul Ved Prakash is a software engineer and Internet entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of anti-spam company Cloudmark and social-media search company Topsy.

In 2013, Topsy was acquired by Apple Inc. The acquisition was reported to be valued over $200M.

In early 2000s, Prakash became widely known for creating Vipul's Razor, a popular open-source anti-spam system. He was named to the list of Top 100 young innovators in the world by MIT Technology Review for this work on anti-spam.

Vipul Ved Prakash grew up in New Delhi, India. He played competitive Table Tennis, and attended St. Stephen's College, Delhi for undergraduate studies in Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science, but dropped out to pursue his interests in software design.

In the late-90s, Prakash co-founded, with Ashish Gulhati, an Internet privacy company (Sense/Net) for early Internet users in India and wrote for computer magazines and industry journals, including a regular column, Net Zeppelin, on networking protocols for the Indian edition of the PC World Magazine.

Prakash has authored several extensions to the Perl programming language that are published under Open Source licenses and distributed via CPAN.