Pooja Baraskar
Senior Manager- Global Developer Relations And Product Marketing
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolPooja Baraskar is a Senior Manager in Global Developer Relations and Product Marketing at Intel with 11+ years of experience building and scaling developer programs for AI, IoT, and edge computing. She blends deep hands-on engineering—starting programming at age nine and contributing OpenVINO model conversions—with strategic program leadership, having grown developer engagement from 1.5M to 2M and led global content at top AI conferences. A rapid prototyping specialist, she has shipped sensor and PCB-based elevator innovations at KONE and co-founded a GovTech startup recognized in India’s Top 50, demonstrating both technical inventiveness and real-world product impact. She’s a three-time Microsoft MVP, two-time Intel Software Innovator, author of technical books, and creator of OpenVINO courseware used in university curricula worldwide. Notably, she pioneered multilingual, interpreter-backed AI workshops to make technical training inclusively accessible across APJ markets.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Applications, Master of Computer Applications at SRI SATYA SAI COLLEGE OF ENGINEERINGBachelors in Computer Application, Bachelors in Computer Application at Mahatma Gandhi UniversityAll India Senior School Certificate Examination, All India Senior School Certificate Examination at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV)
English, Hindi, Marathi
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Github Skills (7)
model-optimization10
openvino10
machine-learning9
computer-vision9
python8
tensorflow8
onnx7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
intel-iot-devkit/smart-video-workshop
Jul 2021 - Oct 2022
Learn about the workflow using Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit to accelerate vision, automatic speech recognition, natural language processing, recommendation systems and many other applications.
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:15 commits, 15 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Pooja's contributions center around working with the OpenVINO toolkit and converting various models to the Intermediate Representation (IR) format, suitable for optimization and deployment using OpenVINO. They demonstrated the ability to download and prepare models for conversion, using model optimization tools to create both FP32 and FP16 IR files. The user worked with different model types and successfully converted them for the OpenVINO toolkit.
recommendation-systemslanguage-processingspeech-recognitiontensorflownatural-language-processing
openvinotoolkit/awesome-openvino
Dec 2023 - Dec 2024
A curated list of OpenVINO based AI projects
Contributions:12 reviews, 15 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year
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