About

Pushkar Sadashiv Ambole is a seasoned software engineer with over six years of experience in the multi-disciplinary industries of fintech, automotive, healthcare, education, semiconductor, and information technology. He has a strong professional software engineering background in building highly scalable and mission-critical distributed systems from scratch. Pushkar has expertise in building out microservices, protecting and scaling them to millions of users. He also has growing exposure to designing scalable, secure, and robust back-end and delivering aesthetic front-end serving tier-1 customer traffic globally. Pushkar possesses technical skills in various languages such as Golang, Python, C#, Java, C, C++, and Kotlin. He is also proficient in cloud technologies such as Azure, AWS, GCP, Docker, Hadoop, Map-Reduce, PySpark, Hive, Kafka, and Kubernetes. Additionally, he has experience in web technologies such as Angular, RESTful API, React, HTML5, JavaScript, .NET Core MVC5-WebAPI, jQuery, PHP, Bootstrap, and CSS3. He is well-versed in databases such as MSSQL, MySQL, NoSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, PL/SQL, Oracle/SQL, SSMS, PostgreSQL, ADO.NET, and ASP.NET Core Entity Framework. Moreover, he has expertise in CI-CD tools such as Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, Azure DevOps, and Openshift. Currently, Pushkar is a Staff Software Engineer at Visa, the world's largest digital payment network technology company. He is designing and building fraud detection cybersecurity products in the data science team with global impact at scale. Pushkar is responsible for engineering and operationalizing enterprise-wide, risk-based security and continuity products to meet changing internal and external threat landscapes using Data Science/Machine Learning. He is also revamping the existing architecture for identified bottlenecks and refactoring the codebases to remove boilerplate code and maximize performance. Pushkar has previously worked as a Senior Software Development Engineer at Cox Automotive and UnitedHealth, where he built and enhanced several greenfield products at scale in data engineering teams. He has a Master of Science in Information Technology from the University of Cincinnati and a Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology from Xavier Institute of Engineering - University of Mumbai. Pushkar's technical skills include software engineering, data science, SQL, ML, dotNET, AWS, Azure, microservices, Ansible, Terraform, infra, data engineering, Kubernetes, Docker, ASP.NET