Pushpak Paithankar

Pushpak Paithankar has a diverse work experience spanning multiple industries. Pushpak started as an intern at the National Aerospace University in 2011. After that, they worked as a Safety Advisor at Impres Australia from 2015 to 2016. In 2017, they joined ISS Facility Services Australia as a Work Safety Officer, where they worked until 2022. During their time at ISS Facility Services Australia, they also completed a comprehensive Data Engineering internship program at Ment360 from April 2022 to September 2022. Currently, they are working as a Junior GCP Data Engineer at Billigence, starting in January 2023. Throughout their career, Pushpak has gained knowledge and skills in various areas such as GCP Data Engineering, SQL, Terraform, GitHub, Agile Methodology, Linux, communication and presentation skills, and personality development. Pushpak has also completed a Google cloud-based project using Agile Methodology.

Pushpak Paithankar completed a Graduate Certificate in Data Science from RMIT University from 2022 to 2023. Prior to that, they obtained a Certificate 3 in Aerodrome Reporting from ASSET Aviation International Institute, which was completed by 2017. In 2012 and 2013, Pushpak pursued a Master of Science (MSc) in Human Factors and Safety Assessment in Aeronautics from Cranfield University. Pushpak also holds a Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Aerospace (Aircraft and Rocket) Engineering from the National Aerospace University -'Kharkiv Aviation Institute'​, which was earned from 2008 to 2012.

In addition to their formal education, Pushpak Paithankar has obtained several certifications. Pushpak completed courses such as "Infrastructure as Code with Terraform," "Interact with Terraform Modules," "Managing Terraform State," and "Terraform Fundamentals" from Coursera in August 2022. In July 2022, they completed the "Linux Fundamentals" course from Coursera. In June 2022, Pushpak undertook several courses including "Building Batch Data Pipelines on Google Cloud," "Building Resilient Streaming Analytics Systems on Google Cloud," "Smart Analytics, Machine Learning, and AI on GCP," and "Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals." Pushpak also completed "Modernizing Data Lakes and Data Warehouses with Google Cloud" and "SQL for Data Science" in May 2022. In July 2021, they completed the "Introduction to Git and GitHub" course from Coursera. Pushpak Paithankar also holds a certification as a "Professional Data Engineer" from Google, obtained in August 2022.