Meet The Identity Disruptors: Deepanker Saxena is Building Identity for The People Systems Overlook

Deepanker Saxena’s experience struggling to establish banking, credit, and housing after moving from India to the United States in 2021 shaped his approach as Socure’s first product hire and later Head of Product. Having encountered the limitations faced by legitimate “thin-file” users with unfamiliar documents and limited U.S. records, he helped broaden identity verification evidence beyond standard domestic documents, including sources such as the National Student Clearinghouse. His teams also focused on equitable face capture using the Monk Skin Tone Scale and accessible identity flows with voice prompts and haptic feedback, helping Socure achieve WCAG 2.2 conformance; the haptic work also unexpectedly improved bot detection by identifying physical differences between devices held by people and those placed on surfaces. Saxena applies the same inclusion-oriented approach to fraud prevention and online child safety, supporting privacy-preserving age verification that returns only an eligibility result rather than collecting or exposing a user’s full date of birth. Recognized in Okta’s 2026 Identity 25, he argues that identity systems should request only the minimum information needed while serving people whose circumstances traditional systems often overlook.

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