Our Journey
From College Project to Real Solution
The story of how Certifi evolved from a simple blockchain experiment to a platform that's changing how we think about academic credentials.
The story of how Certifi evolved from a simple blockchain experiment to a platform that's changing how we think about academic credentials.
Certifi for us started as a college project, but we always knew it could be more. Back in our 4th semester of B.E. in Computer Science, my classmate Darren and I took on a mini project: could we use blockchain to make academic certificates more secure and verifiable?
It was a small idea, but one that stuck with us. We kept building on it through the rest of our degree, and by the time we reached our final year, Certifi had become our major project.
I handled the product side—everything from UI and documentation to presenting our ideas and making sure every feature made sense to the examiner. Darren built the entire backend and tech framework that powered it. We were trying to solve a simple but massive problem: how do you trust a certificate without calling up a college?
Because right now, if you're an employer or organization, you're mostly in the dark. You have a PDF or a piece of paper and hope it's real. The verification process is slow, inefficient, and often manual.
For institutions, issuing and managing certificates is just as painful.
And that's what Certifi fixes. It's a blockchain-powered system that makes academic credentials tamper-proof, verifiable, and easy to manage — for students, institutions, and anyone who needs to verify them.
In March 2025, I decided to take it further. Together with my team, we've turned Certifi into an MVP—live and usable—so we can begin validating it in the real world. It's one of several products we're building, and this one's especially close to home.
Certifi is starting with student certificates, but our roadmap's much bigger. Better credential systems shouldn't be the exception—they should be the default. This is just step one.
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