About

Babji Perambattu is a highly experienced Senior Engineering Leader with over 16 years of hands-on industry experience. He has managed cross-functional and cross-geographical engineering teams, leading large engineering and operations of highly scalable systems. He has worked in pre-sales, product development, product support, and business development. Babji has strong experience in building and managing high performing engineering teams. He has the ability to grasp the big picture and translate business challenges into discrete technical solutions. He is an excellent listener and communicator, comfortable with upstream and downstream communication. Babji's specialties include knowledge graph, data mining, natural language processing, machine learning, enterprise search, search engine optimization, personalized search & recommendations, and analytics. He is currently the Head of India Engineering at Imperva. In his previous roles, Babji has worked as the Director of Software Development at Tivo, where he was responsible for all engineering aspects of knowledge graph generation for the entertainment domain. He managed multiple engineering teams, including knowledge graph, extracts, DevOps, and production support. At Bloomreach, he worked as a Technical Project Manager, leading integration efforts to connect and bridge customer's needs with engineering solutions. The role combined the jobs of a technical engineering lead, communicator, and project manager. Babji holds a Master of Engineering - MEng degree from PSG College of Technology, specializing in Computer Science. His tech stack includes search, ML, NLP, integration, software engineer, and DevOps. With 17.20 years of relevant experience, Babji is a highly skilled and experienced engineering leader who can manage and lead teams to success.