Gaurav Godhwani

Co-Founder

India13 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in data-driven civic engagement strategies.
Led development of a national budget data platform.
Pioneered data-for-good initiatives in the social sector.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Civic Tech expert with a strong focus on data-driven decision making.

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Skills

Core Skills

Data-driven Decision MakingCivic EngagementData AccessibilityBudget AnalysisData CollaborationData Quality ImprovementData ExtractionCloud Technologies

Other Skills

Big DataC++Cloud ComputingDataData PlatformData ScienceData StructuresDesignDyslexiaFlashGoogle App EngineGovernanceHTML 5HTML5Hadoop

About

Helping Civic + Social organizations and Governments to be Data-Driven.

Experience

Civicdatalab

Executive Director & Co-founder

Jun 2018 – Present · 7 yrs 9 mos

Harnessing Data, Tech, Design and Social Science to strengthen the course of Civic Engagements in India. We work to harness the potential of open-source movement to enable citizens to engage better with public reforms. Our focus is to grow data and tech literacy of governments, nonprofits, think-tanks, media houses, universities etc to enable data-driven decision making at scale. https://www.civicdatalab.in/

DataTechDesignSocial ScienceData-Driven Decision MakingCivic Engagement

Centre for budget and governance accountability (cbga)

Technical Lead

Oct 2015 – Jun 2018 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Leading the development of Open Budgets India - a Data Platform to provide citizens free, easy and timely access to relevant data and analysis on budgets at various levels of governance in the country.

Open BudgetsData PlatformGovernanceData AccessibilityBudget Analysis

Datakind

Chapter Leader

Aug 2014 – Dec 2017 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

DataKind brings high-impact organizations dedicated to solving the world’s biggest challenges together with leading data scientists to improve the quality of, access to and understanding of data in the social sector. DataKind Bangalore launched in August 2014, to bring data-for-good movement to Bangalore.

Data ScienceSocial SectorData CollaborationData Quality Improvement

Ibibo web pvt. ltd.

Software Engineer

Mar 2014 – Apr 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

Promptcloud

Software Engineer

Oct 2012 – Mar 2014 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Performing large-scale crawl and extraction by harnessing cloud-based technologies to transform information hidden deep down the web into easy-to-use big data.

Web CrawlingBig DataData ExtractionCloud Technologies