Gaurav Godhwani
Executive Director & Co-founder at CivicDataLab
India
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Top SchoolGaurav Godhwani is an Executive Director and co-founder with 13 years of experience building data-driven civic tech initiatives that help governments, nonprofits and media use open data for better public engagement. He leads CivicDataLab to combine data, design, tech and social science into practical tools and capacity-building programs, and previously spearheaded the Open Budgets India platform at CBGA. Comfortable both as a hands-on engineer and a civic technologist, he has steered large-scale data projects from crawling and extraction to user-facing budget transparency portals. He’s helped seed the data-for-good movement in India through roles at DataKind and collaborative open-data projects like OpenBudgetsIndia.org. Known for translating complex public finance datasets into accessible, reusable resources, he pairs technical rigor with a focus on policy impact.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
ChoithramBE Computer Science, BE Computer Science at IES, IPS Academy
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Github Skills (73)
tabula10
readable9
parse9
open-data9
explore8
ckan7
react-vis7
duplicates6
anomaly-detection6
google-cloud-datastore6
html6
python6
javascript6
information-retrieval6
canvas6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
cbgaindia/unionbudget2017
Feb 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:104 commits, 31 PRs, 91 pushes in 11 months
explorepythonbudget-analysisbudget
cbgaindia/unionbudget2016
Feb 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:43 commits, 34 PRs, 33 pushes in 1 month
explorepythonbudget-analysisbudget
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