The Legal Chain Team

By Waleed Hamada 4 min read
The Legal Chain Team
Legal Chain — The People

The Legal Chain Team

Operators, founding engineers, security professionals, advisors, and interns building faster, clearer legal workflows — designed for integrity and real-world execution from Orange County, CA.

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Legal Chain is built by Waleed Hamada (Founder & CEO), Ramy Rahman (CISO), Miheer Dharwadkar and Hammad Qureshi (Founding Engineers), advisors Sharif El-Badawi and Abhi Bapna, and a team of engineering, legal, and marketing interns — making legal workflows faster, clearer, and more trustworthy for individuals through enterprise teams.

11 team members Try: security, AI, marketing, legal

Leadership

Core operators responsible for product vision, security architecture, AI engineering, and founding-level product execution.

Waleed Hamada
Founder & CEO

Leads end-to-end strategy across operations, fundraising, and go-to-market — driving Legal Chain’s mission to make legal workflows faster, clearer, and more accessible. Born and raised in Orange County, CA.

Product Vision GTM Execution
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Ramy Rahman
CISO

Owns security strategy, privacy-by-design, and resilient systems for AI-powered legal workflows — covering secure data handling, governance, compliance controls, and incident readiness.

Security Governance Compliance
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Miheer Dharwadkar
Founding Engineer

Builds core AI functionality including clause extraction, risk scoring pipelines, and document workflows — reducing manual review time and increasing consistency at every stage of the legal workflow.

Clause Intelligence Risk Scoring AI Pipelines
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Hammad Qureshi
Founding Engineer

Frontend and backend development with an ML background — shipping user-focused features and core product workflows from day one, building the Legal Chain platform from the ground up.

Frontend Backend ML
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Advisory Board

Guidance across fundraising, go-to-market, frontier technology, and legal rigour.

Sharif El-Badawi
Advisor

Advises on fundraising strategy, ecosystem development, and international market entry — bringing deep experience in venture building and startup acceleration.

Fundraising Expansion Ecosystem
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Abhi Bapna
Advisor

Helps ensure Legal Chain’s legal AI stays grounded in verifiable, fact-based workflows — bridging law, IP, and emerging technologies with rigour and real-world accountability.

Legal Rigour IP Verification
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Interns

High-ownership builders contributing to real product workflows across engineering, legal, and go-to-market.

Sweta Das
Engineering Intern

Full-stack builder with HCI focus — shipping usable, reliable product experiences.

Full-Stack HCI
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Giriraj Patel
Engineering Intern

Backend and AI tooling — supporting scalable services and workflow infrastructure.

Backend AI Tooling
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Aditya Rasal
Engineering Intern

Software development and systems support — improving reliability and delivery across platforms.

Systems Reliability
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Sahar Tariq
Legal Intern

Legal research and compliance support — contributing to policy work and trustworthy AI-powered legal workflows.

Research Compliance
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Aidan Rashtchi
Marketing Intern

Creative storytelling with a data-first mindset — social workflows, content, and AI-powered campaign analytics.

Storytelling Analytics
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Want to join the team?

Legal Chain is building the future of legal intelligence. We’re always looking for high-ownership builders — try the beta, share your feedback, and shape what ships next.

Team FAQ

Common questions

Legal Chain is built by Waleed Hamada (Founder & CEO), Ramy Rahman (CISO), Miheer Dharwadkar (Founding Engineer), Hammad Qureshi (Founding Engineer), advisors Sharif El-Badawi and Abhi Bapna, and a team of engineering, legal, and marketing interns based across the US.

Legal Chain’s Founding Engineers are Miheer Dharwadkar, who builds core AI functionality including clause extraction and risk scoring pipelines, and Hammad Qureshi, who leads frontend and backend product development with an ML background — both building the platform from day one.

Legal Chain is headquartered in Orange County, California, USA — where CEO Waleed Hamada was born, raised, and still resides. The team is distributed across engineering, legal, and marketing functions.

No. Legal Chain is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice. It is a software platform designed to help users draft, review, and manage legal documents more efficiently. For legal advice, consult a licensed attorney in your jurisdiction.

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⚖️ Legal Chain is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice. For legal advice, consult a licensed attorney.


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