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Star Contributor of the Month – Avinash Vijayvargiya

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We are pleased to recognize Avinash Vijayvargiya as the Mifos Star Contributor in this June 2026 edition of Star Contributor of the Month. Avinash has been a standout contributor and leader within our community, recognized for his extensive technical impact and dedicated mentorship.

Beginning his open-source journey with us in 2022 by modernizing the Android client, Avinash has since expanded his footprint across both frontend and core backend ecosystems. As a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) alumnus turned Org Admin and Mentor, he has been vital in guiding the next generation of developers into our ecosystem. Most recently, Avinash has been driving impactful backend modernization, collaborating closely with our community architects on migrating Apache Fineract to a CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation) architecture by integrating and consuming the new command processor. His dedication to building robust, event-driven banking infrastructure directly furthers our global mission of financial inclusion.

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Fun Facts About Our 2026 Google Summer of Code Interns

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Our official summer intern blog post is still in the works as we have just finalized our selections for Code for GoodTech and Mifos Summer of Code. So stay tuned for our formal introduction of all our interns then.

Meanwhile…we’ll tide you over with a few fun facts about our 2026 Google Summer of Code interns

We’re honored to be participating as a mentoring org for the 14th year and the 11th directly as the Mifos Initiative. Once again we had to be highly selective, selecting 13 interns from 195 applicants. 

Here’s a glimpse into their projects and some fun facts about each one!

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Star Contributor of the Month – Krishna Mewara

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We are pleased to recognize Krishna as the Mifos Star Contributor in this May 2026 edition of Star Contributor of the Month. Krishna has been selected has been a stand-out contributor for his work on the Apache Fineract and the Self Service Plugin. As a GSoC participant and active community developer, he has made targeted improvements to the plugin, which adds customer-facing self-service APIs on top of Fineract for features like registration, authentication, account management, transfers and more.

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Universal DPI Safeguards Framework – Mifos Alignment

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The Mifos Initiative is pleased to express its commitment to the DPI Safeguards initiative co-stewarded by the UN Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies and United Nations Development Programme.  As part of this  commitment, we will showcase how our Digital Public Goods (DPGs) align with the Universal DPI Safeguards Framework’s foundational and operational principles. We also pledge to ensure that as we engage with countries for the adoption of our DPGs for digital public infrastructure (DPI) use cases, we’ll ensure a Safeguards by Design approach at all stages from design to development to implementation to ongoing support. We will also ensure training and sensitization of ‘Safeguards Inside’ and ‘Safeguards always’ philosophy with our Communities of Practice.

The Mifos Initiative is a global 501(c)3 fintech non-profit that has been pioneering open source technology for financial inclusion for the past two decades. Mifos stewards two Digital Public Goods (DPGs)

Mifos X, an open source core banking platform and system of record and 
Payment Hub EE, an open source payment orchestration engine

which collectively provide the critical yet often overlooked capability needed to provide last-mile accounts for financial inclusion.

We also steward a number of other projects such as Mifos Gazelle, a DPI as a Solution deployment and demonstration tool to help countries evaluate and understand the possibilities of DPI, and a range of mobile applications.

Often when governments are implementing DPI for G2P and P2G payments, digital identity and an instant inclusive payment system are the first priorities. However to achieve financial health and ensure instant payments are inclusive, those last mile recipients must have access to a functional account or wallet. Mifos provides low-cost scalable infrastructure to enable the public and private sector to provide those accounts, connect seamlessly to payments, and deliver a range of financial services via those accounts. Mifos and solutions built on top of its open APIs are reaching more than 75 million individuals across 500+ institutions. 

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