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Intro

About

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Hi, I'm Pushpak Jaju.

Software / Full-Stack / Data Engineer

Open to workSan Jose, CA, USApushpak145@gmail.com

What I'm looking for

Open to full-time software, full-stack, and data engineer roles.

About me

I'm a passionate Software Engineer with hands-on experience building backend systems, scalable pipelines, and full-stack applications. Always learning and pushing toward bigger challenges, I'm motivated by turning ideas into practical, reliable solutions. Currently exploring new opportunities, sharpening my craft, and growing every day. When I'm not coding, you'll probably catch me experimenting in the kitchen, binge-watching anime, watching football(GGMU), or grinding competitive matches in Valorant.

Toolbox

Skills

Frontend

TypeScriptJavaScriptReactAngularHTMLCSS

Backend

PythonJavaNode.jsDjangoFlaskSpring BootREST APIsCI/CD PipelinesJenkinsSQLPostgreSQLMongoDB

Data Engineering

Apache SparkHadoopKafkaETLData PipelinesTableauPower BI

AI/ML

PytorchPandasNumpyData ScienceWeb Scraping

Cloud & DevOps

Google CloudAWSKubernetesDockerGitJira

Track record

Experience

July 2025 — Dec 2025

Software Engineer Intern

MyAscend AI (startup)

Built scalable authentication and onboarding with Next.js, Supabase, and Temporal — enabling passwordless login, smoother invitations, and reliable member data consistency.

June 2024 — May 2025

Software Engineer

Arizona State University (EOSS Tech Team)

Developed and enhanced a campus ride scheduling app in React/TypeScript, adding ride filtering, rescheduling, and admin tools to cut search time and increase student engagement.

Aug 2021 — Jul 2022

Data Engineer

Cognizant

Improved ETL workflows and stored procedures (~25% faster) and built APIs to sync SQL Server with Google BigQuery, reducing data errors with stronger validation and testing.

Jan 2021 — Jul 2021

Software Engineer Intern

Cognizant

Streamlined ETL with Informatica PowerCenter and overhauled an employee database system, improving query mechanisms for ~35% faster profile retrieval and better scalability.

Selected work

Projects

Foundations

Education

Aug 2023 — May 2025

Arizona State University

M.S. Computer Science

GPA: 3.93/4.0 Coursework: Distributed Database Systems, Cloud Computing, Software Design, Foundations of Algorithms, Software Security, Statistical Machine Learning, Data Mining.

Aug 2017 — Sept 2021

Visvesvaraya Technological University

B.E. Computer Science

GPA: 3.6/4.0 Coursework: Operating Systems, Database Management Systems, Computer Networks, Machine Learning, Cloud Computing Platform.

Let's talk

Contact

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