Summary
Jaya Baskaran is a seasoned cloud and developer-focused technical marketing leader with 20+ years in enterprise software and a decade of focused experience in cloud-native platforms and partner GTM. Currently a Sr. Principal Technical Marketing Manager at IBM and formerly leading technical marketing and partner solution architecture at Red Hat, she specializes in helping customers and global SIs adopt OpenShift, managed application services (API Management, Kafka) and platform engineering practices. She builds hands-on enablement—workshops, Solution Patterns, and developer experiences—that translate product portfolios into repeatable TVPs and real-world, AI-ready app architectures. Jaya combines deep pre-sales and engineering roots from early software development and architecture roles with strategic skills honed through Harvard Business School Online programs in entrepreneurship, negotiation and disruptive strategy. Based in Bengaluru, she’s equally comfortable crafting technical content, running platform workshops, and aligning GTM strategy across product, partner and field teams. Outside the obvious, she describes herself succinctly as "coder. crafter. juggler."
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Higher Secondary, Higher Secondary at St. Ignatius' Convent
Other; Certificate of Specialization in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Complete, Other; Certificate of Specialization in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Complete at Harvard Business School Online
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, Distintion, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, Distintion at Bharathiyar University