Keerthana is an international speaker at events like Open Source Summit Europe 2017 in Prague, DebConf16 in Cape Town and FOSSASIA 2017 in Singapore. She participated in Google Summer of Code 2016 as an intern for Debian OS on a project around improving voice video and chat in free software. She attended the Grace Hopper Celebration India 2015 as a student scholar and the Open Source Summit 2017 in Japan. She’s also a volunteer for IEEE and an active speaker and mentor in her local developer circles. Keerthana is a former student ambassador for the International Center for Free Open Source Software, part of the government of Kerala, India. She is scheduled to speak at O'Reilly Fluent 2018 in California on web development.