Domagoj Babic is a tech lead and manager at Google. Privately, he's an early stage (typically seed to B) investor.

Primarily, he wants his work to have a positive impact on people's lives. He enjoys building teams and working with them on solving large-scale real-world important problems, while learning and having fun on the way. He's particularly excited about big technical challenges and enjoy creating the vision, strategy, and technology for taming those challenges.

Over his career, Domagoj has published in the areas of verification, testing, security of complex software systems, automated reasoning, grammar inference, and applied formal methods. Before joining Google, Domagoj was a research scientist at UC Berkeley and elsewhere in industry.

He received his Dipl.Ing. in Electrical Engineering and M.Sc. in Computer Science from the Zagreb University (Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing) in 2001 and 2003. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2008 from the University of British Columbia.

He was a recipient of the NSERC PDF Research Fellowship (2010-2012), Microsoft Graduate Research Fellowship (2005-2007), and several awards at international programming competitions (1st place at the 2007 Satisfiability Modulo Theories competition in the bit-vector arithmetic category and 3rd place at the 2005 Satisfiability Testing competition in the satisfiable-crafted instances category).