Praveen Kumar

Blockchain Mentor

Lead Consultant – Blockchain, National Payments Corporation Of India (NPCI)

With 10+ years of expertise in Blockchain, Project Planning, Implementation, Effort and Estimation, Praveen has hands-on experience in software development stages consisting of requirement elicitation, design, architecture, testing and support. His Technical expertise lies in Blockchain, Hyperledger Fabric, Ethereum, Quorum, Cryptography, PKI, Docker, AWS, Software Engineering and Documentation. Moreover, Praveen designed new business processes based on customer requirements, conducted user review sessions and held meetings by applying thought leadership in leading the transformation. He has a history of excelling in introducing new organizational change, expanding markets and leveraging existing knowledge base with internal resources to facilitate the business excellence.

Qualifications & Achievements

  • Led Blockchain initiatives like VAJRA at NPCI, created payments platform on Blockchain to enable faster reconciliation and minimized disputes in payments network
  • Managed POC, experimented with IMPS platform with the help of a few banks, worked on Corda, Stellar, Hyperledger fabric with different vendors to test the platform’s stability and ease of on-boarding new products in the pilot phase
  • Masters in Information Technology from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University in 2011

Past Associations

Lead Consultant – Blockchain

National Payments Corporation Of India (NPCI)

Blockchain Architect

Athena Global Technologies Ltd 

Senior Information Security Analyst

Infosys

Security Engineer

TCS

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