Zara Perumal

Co-Founder and CTO at Overwatch Data (YC S22) | Forbes 30 Under 30 ‘23

Co-founder

Overwatch· Summer 2022 🇺🇸 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

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2022Co-founder· Overwatch

Founder · since 2022

Company

Overwatch

Role

Co-Founder

current

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

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no public source

Based

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

current

Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

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Overwatch

Enterprise software for enterprise risk and cyber fraud intelligence

Summer 2022

Experience

Career

Overwatch
Co-founder
Co-Founder · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 2022 – Present
2022
Google
Software Engineer -- Threat Analysis Group · Cambridge, MA · 2018 – 2022
2018
Harvard's Belfer Center
Defending Digital Democracy Project, Team Member · 2017 – 2018
2017
MIT Laboratory for Data Science and Decision Systems
Graduate Student · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 2016 – 2018
2016
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
Graduate Student · 2016 – 2018
2016
Akamai Technologies
Data Analytics Intern · Cambridge, MA · 2017
2017
Google
Software Engineering Intern · Mountain View · 2016
2016
NASDAQ
Data Science Intern · Boston · 2016
2016
Apple
Software Engineering Intern · 2015
2015
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Bioinformatics Intern · 2014 – 2015
2014
Jasper Ridge
Mobile Application Developer · 2014
2014
Reela, Inc.
Software Developer · 2014
2014
Weizmann Institute of Science
Undergraduate Researcher · Rehovot, Israel · 2014
2014
Kellis Lab, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Undergraduate Researcher · Cambridge, Massachusetts · 2014
2014
Illumina
Bioinformatics Intern · San Diego, California · 2013
2013
Regev Lab, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Undergraduate Researcher · Cambridge, Massachusetts · 2013
2013
Changing Places, MIT Media Lab
Mobile Application Developer · Cambridge, Massachusetts · 2012 – 2013
2012
McCammon Lab, Univsersity of California San Diego
Undergraduate Researcher · San Diego, California · 2012
2012
Tezcan Lab, University of California San Diego
Undergraduate Researcher · San Diego California · 2011 – 2012
2011
Self-employed
iOS App Developer · 2008 – 2012
2008

Bio

Co-founder / CTO at Overwatch Data Zara studied Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity at MIT LIDS/CSAIL focusing on active learning for malware detection and risk-limiting post-election audits. After graduating, Zara worked on Google Assistant then at Google’s Threat Analysis Group, where she built machine learning and software systems to use threat intelligence and malware analysis to better protect against targeted threats and disinformation by state sponsored actors.