Andrei Kochin
Director Of Software Development at AMD
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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RockstarAndrei Kochin is a software leader and AI-focused engineering manager with 15+ years of progressive experience and five years explicitly in senior AI roles, now serving as Director of Software Development in Dubai. He transitioned from hands-on software development and team leadership at MERA to managing AI software engineering at Intel and now driving development at AMD, blending delivery ownership with technical depth. Andrei contributes to prominent open-source AI tooling—working on the Model Optimizer within the widely used OpenVINO toolkit—demonstrating expertise in model conversion, backend integration, and test maintenance for production inference pipelines. He excels at bridging research-quality ML components and production engineering, often replacing deprecated backends and hardening toolchains for real-world deployment. Based in the UAE, he brings a pragmatic, continuity-focused approach to engineering leadership, favoring maintainability and robust testing over flashy prototypes. Colleagues would note his uncommon combination of long-term product stewardship and active open-source contribution to a major AI inference project.
5 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (9)
deep-learning10
ai10
openvino10
testing9
onnx9
computer-vision8
python8
inference7
nlp7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
openvinotoolkit/openvino
Nov 2020 - Dec 2022
OpenVINO™ is an open-source toolkit for optimizing and deploying AI inference
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:173 reviews, 15 commits, 230 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Andrei's contributions primarily involve modifications to the Model Optimizer (MO) component of the OpenVINO toolkit. Their work includes updating messages, removing deprecated options, replacing backend implementations (Caffe2 with ONNX RT), and updating test configurations within MO. The user appears to be focused on maintaining and improving the MO tool, with changes related to testing, and model conversion support.
inference-enginepytorchmodel-optimizerdeep-learninggpu
andrei-kochin/openvino
Oct 2020 - Mar 2025
OpenVINO™ Toolkit repository
Contributions:27 PRs, 89 pushes, 50 branches in 4 years 5 months
pytorchdeep-learninggpuopenvino-toolkitcomputer-vision
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