National Technology Day | Quote from Amit Sharma, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Twid and Stephanie Barnett, Vice President, Presales APJ, Okta
As May 11 marks National Technology Day, we are reaching out to share thoughts from Amit Sharma, Co-founder and CTO of Twid, India’s leading rewards-based payments and transaction intelligence network, and Okta, the leading independent identity partner.
Amit Sharma’s quote:
“When AI systems begin making decisions that affect people’s money in real time, responsibility has to be engineered into the architecture itself.
In financial ecosystems, the cost of an error can have huge financial implications. A false fraud flag blocks access to funds, resulting in a poor customer experience. A poorly governed autonomous workflow scales errors instantly. As AI embeds deeper into financial infrastructure, responsibility belongs in system design and architecture.
This means building architectures with traceability, continuous monitoring, model governance, and fail-safe mechanisms as foundational components. People trust systems that consistently do what they promise, and engineers build that consistency through principled system design.
At TWID, we believe the next generation of fintech engineering in India will be defined by how transparently and responsibly these systems make decisions that impact people’s financial lives.”
Amit Sharma, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Twid
Stephanie Barnett’s quote:
National Technology Day isn’t just a celebration of how far we’ve come – it’s a launchpad for where India is going next. We’re moving past technology that just helps into an era of autonomous systems managing complex workflows.
But as AI agents join the workforce as our newest digital colleagues, we have to ask: How do we trust a non-human identity? At Okta, we believe identity is the bedrock of this evolution, and when you nail the identity layer, you don’t have to trade speed for security. You get the best of both.
Stephanie Barnett, Vice President, Presales APJ, Okta
