About CertScore

The Problem We Saw Firsthand

In 2025, our founder started a nonprofit to help professionals displaced by AI find new jobs. The work was personal: one-on-one mentoring, resume reviews, interview coaching. Most of the people coming through the door were IT and cybersecurity professionals with years of real expertise and the certifications to back it up.

But in conversation after conversation with recruiters, the same problem surfaced. Candidates would present their credentials. Recruiters had no way to verify them. LinkedIn profiles are self-reported. Resumes are just text. A legitimate CISSP holder looks identical to someone who typed "CISSP" into a form field.

Talented people were losing opportunities not because they lacked qualifications, but because there was no fast, trustworthy way to prove them.

What CertScore Does

CertScore is a mobile-first platform where IT and cybersecurity professionals import, verify, and showcase their certifications.

When you add a credential, we don't just take your word for it. We verify it directly with the credential provider using cryptographic methods. If we can mathematically prove the credential belongs to you, it earns a Gold badge and full points. If we can only confirm it exists but can't prove ownership, it's marked as Self-Reported and earns zero points.

Your certifications are scored by difficulty tier, from Foundational (25 points) to Expert (100 points). You're ranked on a global leaderboard. And you get a shareable, verified profile that recruiters can trust on sight.

Why a Nonprofit

CertScore is a project of V2C Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. We built it this way deliberately. The professionals using CertScore shouldn't have to wonder whether we're selling their data to recruiters or inflating verification results for revenue. Our only incentive is to make the trust layer work.

We have no financial relationship with any certification body. Our verification standards are based solely on what each provider's technology allows us to prove. You can read the full details on our Transparency page.

How Verification Works

We use the Open Badges 2.0 specification to verify credentials cryptographically. When a credential provider like Credly includes a hashed email in its badge assertion, we hash your CertScore account email with the same algorithm and compare. If the hashes match, ownership is mathematically proven. No human judgment involved.

For providers that don't support email hash verification, credentials are imported as Self-Reported. We'd rather give you zero points than give you trust you haven't earned. That's the standard. Full technical details are on our Transparency page.

The Team

CertScore was built by Rajat Ravinder Varuni, who founded V2C Inc. after witnessing the disconnect between qualified professionals and the hiring systems meant to find them. What started as a mentoring effort became a technology problem, and what started as a technology problem became CertScore.

Get in Touch

Questions, feedback, or partnership inquiries: [email protected]

Check our system status anytime at status.certscore.org.