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About the Speaker
Karthik Raghavan Ravi is Director of Compute System Software at NVIDIA in Bengaluru. His career at NVIDIA has spanned building OpenCL drivers, representing the company at international standards bodies, bootstrapping an entirely new functional safety effort for autonomous vehicles, and now leading a compute software organisation.
He studied engineering at the College of Engineering, Guindy (CEG), Chennai, and went on to do his Master’s in Parallel Computer Architectures at IIT Madras — a path shaped less by rankings and more by genuine curiosity about how computers work at their deepest level.
Karthik’s children are part of the Gifted World community, and he brings the rare perspective of someone who has both built a career worth talking about and thought deeply about what he wants for his own kids’ education.
What We’ll Explore
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A Life in Computer Science
A second-generation computer scientist who loves teaching and learning. What experiences shaped his life?
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Reinventing Yourself Within One Company
From driver engineering to functional safety to leading a compute organisation — all at NVIDIA.
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What Actually Matters
The skills, habits, and mindset that matter for a career in tech — and what to stop worrying about.
About the Series
Many Roads: Exploring Careers
Most students in India hear about the same five careers. The coaching pipeline narrows options early, and by the time they’re in middle school, many kids already believe their future is a choice between engineering and medicine.
The reality is far more interesting. The world is full of people who built fulfilling, successful careers by following their curiosity — through unexpected turns, unusual choices, and paths that made sense only in hindsight.
Many Roads is Gifted World’s monthly career conversation series. Each session, we sit down with someone who has built a career worth talking about — not because they followed a formula, but because they didn’t. The conversations are honest, personal, and designed to help students aged 10–16 and curious adults think bigger about what’s possible.
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Real Conversations
Not lectures. A genuine conversation about choices, failures, and surprises.
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Student Q&A
Every session includes 15 minutes for students to ask their own questions directly.
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Diverse Paths
Tech, science, design, the arts — people who took the road less prescribed.
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Families Welcome
Students and parents attend together. Saturday evenings, 6:30 PM IST on Zoom.
What Our Community Says
“I can easily top my class in school. But here, everyone is very intelligent. I felt challenged and that made me interested.”
— Iniyan, student, Chennai
“Not for coaching, not increasing your marks from 90 to 100%. The goal was to make sure the child understands and enjoys the real deep understanding.”
— Sateesh, Parent, Bengaluru
Coming Up Next
Session #2 — May/June 2026
Speaker and topic to be announced soon. Watch this space.