Bobbie Cochrane
Manager, Forward Deployed AI Engineers at IBM
Oriental, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBobbie Cochrane is a seasoned AI and enterprise software leader with a PhD in Computer Science and over a decade of focused experience delivering scalable systems at IBM and its affiliates. Currently managing Forward Deployed AI Engineers, she blends research depth—years as a Senior Research Scientist and Distinguished Engineer—with hands-on platform and blockchain architecture expertise. Her background spans core database and cloud technologies (including IBM DB2), enterprise blockchain engagements, and building AI application frameworks that move models into production. She has navigated both research labs and product teams, contributing to StepZen and IBM Research while scaling technical strategy across large organizations. Based in Oriental, North Carolina, she pairs academic rigor with practical deployment experience, often translating complex research into operational enterprise solutions. Colleagues describe her as a bridge between deep technical innovation and real-world, auditable software delivery.
10 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at University of MarylandJames Madison University
Github Skills (30)
chaincode10
agenda10
graphql-subscriptions10
fabric10
blockchain9
hyperledger9
hyperledger-fabric9
blockchain-network9
graphql9
ethereum8
federation8
graphql-schema7
nexus7
security7
composite7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bobbiejc/snippets
Jul 2022 - Aug 2022
Snippets for securing, transforming, and optimizing GraphQL APIs.
Contributions:30 pushes, 7 branches in 1 month
reactgraphql-apissnippetsgraphqloptimizing
bobbiejc/graphql-wg
May 2022 - Nov 2022
Working group notes for GraphQL
Contributions:3 pushes in 6 months
notesgraphql-toolsgroup-notesgraphiqlgraphql
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