The idea is to have the possibility to programmatically add some "symbols" that will be written in overlay to the profile image
This may serve for example to add some badge (e.g. in order to gamify some feature of the platform)
To create this the run-time drawing of the "simple" profile image might be substituted with a generic extendable class that might return again just the profile image of a more complex html structure representing a business card or wathever will be considered useful