Summary
Iva Babukova is a computer vision software engineer and seasoned tech founder with 11 years of experience building cloud-native, data-intensive platforms. She co-founded Biomage and served as CTO, architecting scalable single-cell RNA-seq infrastructure used by Harvard and later acquired by Parse Biosciences. Her work spans deploying resilient EKS/Fargate systems, designing CI/CD for multi-environment AWS deployments, and shipping video-processing CV pipelines at Google DeepMind. As Director of Cloud Computing at Parse she led initiatives to make bioinformatics workflows accessible to non-programmers and shorten analysis from months to days. Iva combines hands-on engineering with product and fundraising experience, having hired and led high-performing teams that delivered mission-critical features for academia and industry. Based in Berlin, she pairs deep technical rigor with a practical knack for turning research-grade tools into commercial platforms.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
High School Mathematics and German, High School Mathematics and German at Sofia Mathematics High School
Master’s Degree with honours of the First Class Computer Science, Master’s Degree with honours of the First Class Computer Science at University of Glasgow
English, German, Bulgarian, Polish