About

Pradnya Patre is a highly skilled and experienced Sustainment Engineer currently working at Ontic. With almost a decade of experience in the industry, Pradnya has a strong background in aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering. Her current role at Ontic involves supporting products through their entire lifecycle from NPI to retirement, providing technical support to internal and external stakeholders, reviewing technical specifications, managing major and minor changes, producing technical documents and reports, performing root cause investigations, delivering corrective actions, providing training and advice to technicians and operators, and adhering to all statutory requirements, regulations, and company policies. Prior to joining Ontic, Pradnya worked as a Technical Analyst at Jaguar, where she was responsible for analyzing the aerodynamic and cooling performance of vehicles, managing the aerodynamic performance, building and running CAE models, performing 3D CFD thermal simulations, communicating heat management and protection design solutions to program teams and component owners, supporting Thermal PAT leaders with CAE results and recommendations, and performing aerodynamics and thermal testing for vehicles. She also worked as a CFD Engineer at Colt International Ltd, UK, where she was responsible for performing CFD analysis for smoke ventilation, environmental ventilation, and architectural shading and louvre to the construction industry. Pradnya's educational background includes a Master of Technology (M.Tech.) in Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and a Bachelor's Degree in Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from The Aeronautical Society of India. She is also proficient in Apache Airflow and other relevant technologies. With almost 10 years of relevant experience, Pradnya is a highly skilled and knowledgeable engineer who is dedicated to providing technical support and delivering high-quality results. Her expertise in the field of aerospace and her ability to manage major and minor changes using the Engineering Change Notice workflow make her a valuable asset to any organization.