Anna Varosyan
VP of Engineering and Deputy CTO at Affinidi
Berlin-based engineering executive with more than 25 years in the field, now VP of Engineering and Deputy CTO at Affinidi, a Singapore-headquartered digital-trust and identity infrastructure company. She spent roughly eight years at HERE Technologies as a principal engineer working on site reliability and engineering productivity before joining Affinidi, where she rose from senior engineering manager to deputy CTO in about four years.
Key arguments & positions
- Argues AI agents need an explicit trust layer — decentralized trust graphs and verifiable credentials — so systems can prove who or what took an action.
- Pushes for open standards and cross-border interoperability in digital identity.
- From her conference talk: reliability and trust have to be engineered into production AI, not asserted after the fact.
- Speaks on career growth frameworks for engineers, including her own "GROWTH Pathways" model.
Accomplishments
- VP of Engineering and Deputy CTO at Affinidi, after rising from senior engineering manager in about four years.
- Roughly eight years at HERE Technologies as a principal engineer on site reliability and engineering productivity.
- Wrote publicly on OpenVTC's decentralized trust architecture for verifying both humans and AI agents.
- Spoke at the Women in Tech Global Conference on leadership and career transitions.
Papers & key writings
- "Embrace, Lead, and Grow" — Women in Tech Global Conference
- Writing on OpenVTC trust architecture, published through Affinidi and her LinkedIn.
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