The Team
Built by someone who was inside.
Most legal software is built by engineers who interviewed attorneys. Oravanti was built by someone who sat inside the federal system that processes every application your firm files — and engineered by someone who built systems for Google.
Mission
"To build the infrastructure that the entire U.S. legal industry runs on, starting where the need is greatest, the problem is hardest, and the advantage is most unreplicable."
— Olga Kanaris, Founder & CEO
The Founder
Olga Kanaris
Founder & CEO
Olga Kanaris served as a Program Manager at USCIS's Office of Information Technology — the division responsible for building and operating ELIS, the Electronic Immigration System that underpins every digital immigration filing in the United States. She was a Subject Matter Expert on ELIS itself, and an International Trainer for RAIO, the Refugee, Asylum, and International Operations directorate.
That means she knows what the system looks for before it rejects a filing. She knows why a specific field combination on a Form I-485 generates an RFE from a specific service center. She knows how adjudicators use processing queues, what manual review actually looks like, and which paralegal errors are invisible to attorneys until the rejection arrives.
She left to build the platform she wished every firm she worked with had.
Oravanti's quality control engine does not flag errors based on general best practices. It flags them based on the specific adjudication patterns she documented from inside.
That distinction is the difference between software that helps and software that protects.
USCIS OIT Program Manager
Led Agile teams integrating AWS, Databricks, and Scala into ELIS architecture. First-person knowledge of system structure, failure modes, and data formats.
ELIS Subject Matter Expert
Direct mediator between development teams, field offices, and policy. Developed ELIS-based training tools and workflows used by USCIS field staff nationally.
RAIO International Trainer
International Trainer for the Refugee, Asylum and International Operations directorate. Trained adjudicators on the exact patterns that produce approvals — and rejections.
Senior USCIS HQ Leadership
Business Interface Representative at USCIS HQ. Oversaw national field operations, led cross-directorate incident management, implemented standardized escalation systems still in use today.
Technology Innovation Award, 2020
USCIS Recognition Award for Leading Innovation and Change — for proposing the integration of ELIS and MyUSCIS check-in processes.
Legal Operations Leadership
Led legal operations for major immigration practices: managing attorneys, paralegals, training pipelines, and compliance across Business Immigration, Litigation, and General Practice pods.
Author
Oravanti: The Golden Path Forward — a guide for immigrant entrepreneurs ready to build legally, strategically, and powerfully in the U.S. Available in English and Spanish.
Founder & CEO
Building the multi-practice legal platform she wished every firm she worked with had — connecting case management directly to the federal systems cases depend on.
The CTO
Verdi Ergün
Chief Technology Officer
Verdi Ergün is a serial entrepreneur, technologist, and the Chief Technology Officer at Oravanti. With a deep background in building scalable, high-performance systems, he brings world-class engineering expertise to the legal technology space.
Prior to joining Oravanti, Verdi served as an Applications Engineer at Google, where he built systems to help design, install, and maintain Google's global networks and cloud platforms. He also served as the Chief Technology Officer for Skipify, scaling their payment infrastructure, and founded Punch Digital Agency, a premier design and engineering firm in San Francisco.
At Oravanti, Verdi leads the architectural vision and development of the platform, ensuring that the integration with federal systems like ELIS is built with the same level of security, reliability, and scale as the world's top technology companies.
Applications Engineer, Google
Built systems to help design, install, and maintain Google's global networks and cloud platforms — engineering at planetary scale.
CTO, Skipify
Scaled payment infrastructure for a high-growth fintech, with the security and reliability standards modern payments demand.
Founder, Punch Digital Agency
Founded a premier design and engineering firm in San Francisco, shipping product for venture-backed startups and global brands.
CTO, Oravanti
Leads architectural vision and development of the platform, ensuring ELIS-grade integration is built with the security, reliability, and scale of the world's top technology companies.
The core breakthrough
Why ELIS is the starting point, not the end point.
USCIS has spent $3.1 billion and two decades attempting to digitize immigration filings through ELIS. Today, over 85% of all immigration filings still arrive by mail. Mail processing teams manually re-enter attorney-prepared data into ELIS. Every manual entry is a potential transcription error. Every transcription error is a potential Request for Evidence.
Every immigration technology platform on the market — Clio, Docketwise, MyCase, SimpleCitizen — generates a PDF and mails it. Not one has solved the filing problem. They have automated the preparation. They have not automated the submission.
Oravanti is the only platform that packages filing data in ELIS-native format and routes it directly into the USCIS system.
Positioning
What this platform is not.
It is not a form filler. Every legal software product fills forms.
It is not a case tracker. Every legal software product tracks cases.
Oravanti is an operational system that tells you — before you file — that this packet has a problem USCIS will find.
It tells your paralegal that they cannot submit this form until the prerequisite tasks are complete. It tells your managing attorney that one staff member's rejection rate is three times the firm average, on which form type, and since when.
It connects your case management directly to the government systems your cases depend on — USCIS processing times, EOIR court deadlines, ICE detainee location, and, when the integration goes live, ELIS itself.
It is built for firms that want to stop reacting and start operating.