Hello! I'm Gaurav, and I've been maintaining a personal homepage on the internet since before 1997 (previous sites from 1995 were not archived).
I like to dream about what a better world might look like, and I enjoy the process of trying to help build it. I've been very lucky in life, and I want to pay it forward by using the opportunities given to me to make a difference in my community. I would like to connect to people who are optimists at heart, but pragmatists in deed. I also like to have fun along the journey, which matters more to me than the destination.
I give talks, field interviews, and write publications on a variety of topics that I'm passionate about. My public resume is here.
My public resume
Gaurav Keerthi is a senior military officer and public servant. In the military, he was a helicopter pilot and flew rescue missions during the 2004 Asian Tsunami and headed air defence. He was also the first Chief Innovation Officer of the Air Force. In the public service, he currently drives the engineering and ecosystem development for cybersecurity nationally.
Gaurav was a volunteer with SINDA and OnePeople.sg, and was the President of the Debate Association (Singapore). As a hobby coder, he has founded and built numerous digital non-profit tools, and now co-leads the national "TechForGood" movement under better.sg.
He is often invited to share his views on leadership, innovation, technology, cybersecurity, community building, and leading a balanced, purposeful life, with young people and with organisations.
Gaurav did his undergraduate at Stanford University on a government scholarship and his masters at Harvard Kennedy School of Government on the Lee Kuan Yew Scholarship, where he graduated as a distinguished Littauer Fellow.
He also was part of an indie rock band, but fortunately for everybody, that didn't work out.
