Meet our 2025 Summer Interns
Join us in officially welcoming our class of interns for 2025. We have the honor of working with 23 interns across Google Summer of Code, Code for GovTech, and Mifos Summer of Code. This year Google of Summer of Code is celebrating its 21st year and marks our 13th year of participation overall and 10th year directly as the Mifos Initiative with thirteen interns chosen. We selected six interns through C4GT as a participant for the second time in the Code for GovTech Dedicated Mentoring Program which is now entering its third year being led by Samagra Governance. This was our most selective year to date and due to the immensely high quality of candidates that applied, we offered up an additional four internship positions through Mifos Summer of Code to candidates we couldn’t accept through the other programs. We have a range of countries represented with India well represented, but also two interns from Egypt, an intern from Cameroon as well as Uganda, an intern from Myanmar, and interns from Afghanistan and Bangladesh.
Across all the programs the evaluation and selection process was very intensive; for the Google Summer of Code program as a whole, 1,272 contributors were accepted from the 23,559 applications received, their highest total in 21 years, more than 2.5x the previous record. For Mifos alone we received 209 proposals from which we were granted 13 slots yielding an acceptance rate of only 6%. Similarly, for Code for GovTech their program had 8700 proposals from 4200 applicants from which we selected 6 interns from a pool of 197 applicants.
A massive thank you to David Higgins for helping organize all our intern procedures this year and all of our mentors for helping to evaluate, guide and onboard our interns. We are gracious to Google and Samagra Governance for the opportunity to work with so many talented and motivated individuals as they help us fight poverty with financial inclusion, build the next generation of open source contributors for our project, and help usher them along their personal and professional journeys.
Google Summer of Code
For Google Summer of Code, we selected interns to work across a mix of projects that will deliver both high-value and bleeding edge capabilities to the community.
On the mobile front, we have three GSOC interns working across the technical and functional spectrum of our mobile apps – Saksham Gupta working on building out a consistent and reusable UI/UX Component Library in Compose for Kotlin Multiplatform, Sk Nyanji Ali continuing to refine the Kotlin Multiplatform Project template to ease the developer experience across all our mobile apps and Hekmatullah Amin enhancing the MifosPay Mobile Wallet app user experience and transactional workflows.
On the front-end, we have two projects helping to stabilize and optimize our production web user interface for staff and also working on a next-generation modular UI for fintech applications. Gopi Kishan will be enhancing the Mifos X Web App by upgrading to the latest stable versions and refining some of the key portions of the application and Craig Rosario via a micro-frontend approach will be building a modular React-based UI with ShadCN components for fintechs and digital-first institutions. 8700 proposal 4200 applicants
We are continuing to explore the boundaries of AI for financial inclusion with two projects through GSOC with Aru Sharma refining and extending our Generative AI Chatbot for Community Support to support more incoming data as well as bi-directional actions being taken by the chatbot. Keshav Arora is going to build upon the agentic AI operations that Victor has been enabling through the MCP Server for Mifos X.
Our newest product, Mifos Gazelle, will be getting a lot of attention with two GSOC interns focusing on adding support for ARM-based architectures like Mac devices and Raspberry Pis being led by Devarsh Shah in addition to Yash Sharma working on a Demo Profile Creator to enable the configuration of end to end use cases for demonstrations and storyboarding as part of Mifos Gazelle.
In securing our core DPGs and building around the edge of the core banking architecture, we have 4 GSOC interns. Norbline Azah is building out an AI-driven testing framework for Payment Hub EE to increase its resilience, scalability, and security. We then have three projects that will enhance the capabilities of Mifos X as a robust loan management system by helping the origination and decisioning processes – Yu Waty Nyi will be working on the next version of our credit bureau integration module, Hossam Hatem will be building a module to integrate with a best-in-breed open source workflow engine to enable the easy configuration of complex processes and workflows for loan origination and client onboarding while Abhinav Cilanki will be bring together our growing pool of different credit assessment tools into a reactive event-driven credit risk assessment tool.
Code for GovTech
For Code for GovTech, we have a diverse array of projects all related to our emerging digital public goods to fuel digital public infrastructure that advances the adoption of instant inclusive payment systems and enables effective last-mile G2P distribution.
Our Mentor team lineup includes Tom Daly, David Higgins, Akshat Sharma, Parth Kausal, Rajan Maurya and Abhinav Kumar (who was a former C4GT Interm).
On the Mifos X – Mobile Applications front, we have two projects: enhancements to our mobile wallet, Mifos Pay, which Biplab Dutta will be working on; and enhancements to Mifos Mobile which Nagarjuna Banda will be working on. Mentorship will be provided by Rajan Maurya.
On Mifos X – AI projects, we have Shubham Pal looking at Accessibility and Language Improvements to increase inclusion in Applications. We also have Vickey Kumar looking at Voice-Driven Banking via Large Acoustic Models (LAMs). Mentorship will be provided by Akshat Sharma and Parth Kausal.
On Mifos Gazelle – We have two exciting project looking to expand the breadth and useability. Rishav Jain will be working on integration of OpenCRVS, a DPG focused on Civil Registration. Pranav Deshmukh will be looking at a runtime GUI for Mifos Gazelle demos that supports narration and guides the users through using the UI of the core products. Mentorship of these projects is provided by Tom Daly, Abhinav Kumar and David Higgins.
Thank you once again to Samagra Governance for its leadership of the C4GT program. Thank you to all the mentors for all their guidance so far and continuing to lead our interns throughout the summer.
Mifos Summer of Code
This year we are bringing on four interns through our second Mifos Summer of Code program with a similar mix of project focuses. We have two additional interns, Pronay Sarker and Jilakara Rivanth Kumar, that will both be working on the migration of the Mifos X Field Officer App to Kotlin Multiplatform. On both the AI as well as loan decisioning front, Priyanshu Tiwari will be refining our bank statement analysis module and rounding out our Mifos Gazelle projects, Joshua Nsereko is focusing his efforts on reducing the resource consumption of Mifos Gazelle so it can be deployed in even lower resource environments.
Please join us at two upcoming Town Hall Meetings where will be formally introducing all our interns. We will have one on Friday June 27 at 1530 GMT via Zoom to introduce our AI, Gazelle and Platform Integration interns and a second Town Hall on Friday July 4 at 1530 GMT via Zoom to introduce our mobile and web app interns where we will formally introduce all our interns.
Mifos Mobile Apps
Saksham Gupta
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Sk Nyaji Ali
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Hekmatullah Amin
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Web & Front-End
Gopi Kishan
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Craig Rosario
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AI & Machine Learning
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Aru Sharma
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Keshav Arora
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Mifos Gazelle
Devarsh Shah
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Yash Sharma
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Mifos X Platform, Security & DevOps
Hossam Hatem
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Abhinav Cilanki
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Yu Waty Nyi
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Norbline Azah
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Code for GovTech Interns
Biplab Dutta
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Pranav Deshmukh
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Rishav Jain
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Shubham Pal
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Vickey Kumar
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Nagarjuna Bunda
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Mifos Summer of Code Interns
Joshua Nsereko
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Priyanshu Tiwari
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Pronay Sarker
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Jilakara Rivanth Kumar
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