Pushkar V.

Pushkar V. serves as an Associate Partner Data Consultant at IBM since January 2024, previously held the position of Senior Director at Octo from August 2023 to December 2023, and was the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Solutionplex LLC from May 2023 to August 2023. Between September 2019 and May 2023, Pushkar V. was a Director of Platform Engineering at Freddie Mac, where significant contributions included creating a self-service MLOps platform and improving deployment efficiencies. Prior roles include Senior Data Engineering Manager at Freddie Mac, Senior Software Engineering Manager at Capital One, and Software Engineering Manager at CSRA Inc. Pushkar V. began a career at IBM, holding various technical and managerial positions from March 1999 to May 2014. Academic credentials include a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from The Johns Hopkins University, an MBA from the University of Maryland Global Campus, a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics from the University of Maryland, and a Nanodegree in Machine Learning from Udacity.