Erik Babu
Software Engineering Team Lead at Bloomberg
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolErik Babu is a Software Engineering Team Lead based in London with nine years of experience building and operating high-performance distributed systems that handle millions of requests and process billions of data points daily. An Imperial College MEng graduate, he blends hands‑on C++ and systems work with product-driven leadership at Bloomberg, where he now manages a seven‑engineer team in real‑time events data products. He focuses on simple, data‑driven engineering, observability-first tooling, and documenting the “why,” while creating processes that accelerate growth for less‑experienced engineers through meaningful ownership. Equally committed to people development and delivery, he runs knowledge‑sharing programs, leads quarterly business planning, and partners closely with product to prioritise client impact. Notably, he has repeatedly modernised legacy market data pipelines (including porting big‑iron code to C++17) and cultivates psychological safety so teams can fail fast and learn faster.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng) Computer Science, Master of Engineering (MEng) Computer Science at Imperial College LondonIGCSE and A-Levels, IGCSE and A-Levels at Maru-a-Pula School (MaP)
English
Github Skills (7)
medical7
collaboration5
privacy4
federated-learning4
federated3
planning1
java1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
erikbabu/federated-learning-healthcare-data
Jan 2020 - Jun 2020
MEng Individual Project on applying federated learning to healthcare data to enable collaboration between different medical institutions in a way that addresses the issues of privacy and data ownership.
Contributions:86 commits, 3 PRs, 19 pushes in 5 months
individualownershipdata-ownershipprivacycollaboration
gorosgobe/nlp
Jan 2020 - Feb 2020
Contributions:42 commits in 29 days
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