DEEPAK AHUJA

Tech founder | UCLA PGPX | ex-Amazon, ex-Goldman Sachs

Hi, I am Technologist with 20+ years of career steering high-octane projects to success. I have thrived to create a fast-paced, startup-like environment in large enterprise companies (Amazon, Goldman Sachs, etc) innovatively solving highly ambiguous business problems from “one-liner” to Launch using cutting-edge highly-scalable Cloud Technologies.

My professional journey spans diverse sectors of Technology Products, SaaS, eCommerce, Finance, and Telecom, where I've consistently driven IT strategies to boost customer acquisition and revenue.

There was a moment that really hit me: I was applying for a job and got asked to send over my ID. It felt routine—until I realized just how often we give up sensitive personal documents just to prove we're real. It’s something we’ve all done, but it left me wondering: why do we still rely on omethods so vulnerable to misuse?

That single moment opened a floodgate, and I realized: verification is no longer optional—it's essential in a world where online scams are surging. From dating apps where people hide their relationship status, to landlords misled by renters with hidden eviction histories, to service workers entering homes under false identities—trust is being broken everywhere, not just online, but in real life too. But the systems we use today to verify people are scattered, outdated, and not full proof.

That’s what sparked VerifiedMe.ai. What if we flipped the model? Instead of repeatedly handing over documents and hoping the other party verifies who we are—or asking others for documents and taking on the burden of verifying them ourselves—what if trust came pre-verified, portable, and secure for both sides? That’s what we’re building: a patent-pending identity infrastructure to make trust verifiable and user-controlled.

There was a moment that really hit me: I was applying for a job recently and got asked to send over my ID. It felt routine—until I realized just how often we give up sensitive personal documents just to prove we're real. It’s something we’ve all done, but it left me wondering: why do we still rely on methods so vulnerable to misuse?

That single moment opened a floodgate, and I realized: verification is no longer optional—it's essential in a world where online scams are surging. From dating apps where people hide their relationship status, to landlords misled by renters with hidden eviction histories, to service workers entering homes under false identities—trust is being broken everywhere, not just online, but in real life too. But the systems we use today to verify people are scattered, outdated, and not full proof.

That’s what sparked VerifiedMe.ai. What if we flipped the model? Instead of repeatedly handing over documents and hoping the other party verifies who we are—or asking others for documents and taking on the burden of verifying them ourselves—what if trust came pre-verified, portable, and secure for both sides? That’s what we’re building: a patent-pending identity infrastructure to make trust verifiable and user-controlled.