Pramod Varma is the former chief architect of Aadhaar and India Stack. He is currently the chief technology officer of the EkStep Foundation, a not-for-profit creating learner-centric digital public goods under Project Sunbird (sunbird.org). In addition, he is the co-founder of FIDE.org and the genesis author of the open-source Beckn protocol (becknprotocol.io). He is also an adjunct faculty member and co-chair at the global Centre for DPI (CDPI.dev).