Pramod Varma
Co-Founder & Chief Architect at Networks for Humanity
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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SeniorPramod Varma is a veteran technology architect and co-founder who has spent the last 15+ years shaping India’s population-scale Digital Public Infrastructure and now leads Networks for Humanity to build universal infrastructure for the AI-driven digital economy. He co-created the Beckn Protocol and the Finternet vision, initiatives to enable open, peer-to-peer value exchange and seamless asset verification and transactions, and helped launch the Digital Energy Grid for future energy networks. As Chief Architect at UIDAI and contributor to systems like UPI, eSign, DigiLocker and ONDC, he combines deep systems design with product-minded execution that scales to hundreds of millions of users. He pairs academic rigor—Ph.D. and master’s degrees in computer science and applied mathematics—with entrepreneurial experience across the US and India dating back to the 1990s. An active open-source builder, he contributed front-end and mobile integration work to DIVOC, an India-scale vaccination and credentialing platform, underscoring his hands-on approach to public-interest software. Globally advising governments and institutions, he blends policy-sensitive architecture with pragmatic engineering to operationalize ambitious socio-technical systems.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (7)
html10
css10
javascript10
react10
freemarker9
keycloak8
mobile-development7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
egovernments/DIVOC
Oct 2020 - Jan 2021
Open source digital platform for large scale vaccination and digital credentialing programs. Built for India scale, addresses future vaccination scenarios, digital credentialing, and beyond.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:128 commits, 113 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
Contributions summary:Pramod primarily contributed to the front-end development of the DIVOC platform, implementing UI components, including forms for user input and display. They worked on the creation and styling of these components, modifying CSS and HTML templates using technologies such as React, and FreeMarker templates for Keycloak theming. Their work also included modifying Javascript functionality and integrating mobile UI elements. They integrated with mobile functionality, including the design of a mobile application component.
addressesscalelarge-scalevaccinationprograms
VC-Specs/vc-specs
Dec 2021 - Dec 2022
Sunbird specs (schemas) for verifiable credentials in various domains such as skilling, education, etc. Sunbird VC implementation fully leverages W3C VC specs and whenever possible reuses globally available schemas.
Contributions:3 reviews, 10 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year
verifiableleveragessecurityspecsspec
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