Anivar A Aravind
Global Head of Engineering, Foodhub
Recognising which shifts endure, and building the tech ecosystem.
Technology changes faster than organisations do. Quick commerce before it had a name. Lending infrastructure for small businesses no bank would underwrite. Agentic systems in production now, and in the architecture reviews. The same instinct runs the other way: research, standards and policy so what gets built stays answerable to the people it decides about.
- Agentic identity & governance
- Commerce, payments & fintech
- Multi-tenant SaaS
- Open source & standards
Recent
Internet-Draft
draft-ranjbar-dane-did-01
Co-authored with Kaveh Ranjbar. Decentralised identifiers bound to the DNS through DANE, so a DID resolves against a name whose control is already provable — rather than against a registry that has to be trusted separately.
1 Aug 2026
Talk
Can the Commons Correct the Machine?
Future of the Commons Collective · Centre for Internet & Society, Open Knowledge Initiatives and IIIT Hyderabad
24 Jul 2026
Internet-Draft
draft-aravind-oauth-decision-subject-00
The person a decision is about, named in the exchange — distinct from the party who requested it and the party who is authorised.
19 Jul 2026
Internet-Draft
draft-aravind-oauth-operator-of-record-00
The party accountable for an agent's action, carried in the token rather than inferred from the key that signed it.
19 Jul 2026
Essay
Where Reciprocity Stops
Enterprise AI has not rejected the doctrine of software freedom. It has replaced reciprocity with sovereignty.
25 Jul 2026
Essay
The Compiler Forgives. The Loop Forgets.
A coding agent works because the compiler, not the model, writes the truth down. That witness has no equivalent once loops compose: the handoff, not the loop, is the wall the field walks into.
21 Jul 2026
Essay
The Wallet in Your Pocket Now Holds Your National Identity
Your national identity now sits beside your airline miles, and the next hand to present it will not be yours
19 Jul 2026
Essay
Wrappers, Not Records
The World Bank has standardised the digital wallet. Its record names the person a credential describes, and has no field for the person a decision is about.
11 Jul 2026
On stage
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The Layer 8.
Standards, identity, AI infrastructure — and how power, incentives and governance get encoded into them.
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