Gautam (pronounced “Gotham”) Narula is an author and software engineer. He is the author of Remain Free, a memoir detailing his friendship with death row inmate Troy Davis and years working on the case while exploring the issues that plague the death penalty and our justice system. Remain Free won the 2016 Georgia Author of the Year Award. His story about his friendship with Troy Davis was featured on The Moth Radio Hour on NPR to over a million listeners.

He attended the University of Georgia from 2011-2013 and 2017-2019, where he studied Computer Science and Political Science as a Foundation Fellow and National Merit Scholar, and was an alternate for the 2013 Thiel Fellowship.

In the past, he was the co-founder and CEO of a tech startup, interned at Amnesty International and Amazon, wrote for TechEmergence and the Georgia Political Review, spoke at MIT, Cornell, The Moth Mainstage, scored a perfect 2400 on the SAT, and worked as a foundational machine learning engineer on the artificial intelligence team at Compass, a real estate tech company, prior to and including its IPO.

Gautam is also a competitive chess player, and as a teenager was one of the top 100 American chess players for his age. He has also defeated a top 100 American player in tournament play, and duked it out with the reigning World Blitz Chess Champion.

To learn more, visit his writing, software, speaking, now, and LinkedIn pages, or get in touch by emailing gautam[at]gautamnarula.com.