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Meet three graduates who all chose engineering pathways – and never looked back
poilt for choice much? With so many cool next-gen STEM degrees ou t there, we spoke to three graduates about wh at made them choose engineering – and how it helped them score great gig s.
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Shivang Nagar
Data engineer, Commonwealth Bank
The businesssavvy engineer
were a natural fit. hivang and a double degree ool, the maths whiz After graduating from high sch ay that’d teach him both was keen to choose a pathw ial skills. engineering and entrepreneur engineering, but also re twa “I wanted to learn sof lains. how a business works,” he exp or of Sof tware hel Eventually settling on a Bac merce at Monash Com of Engineering and a Bachelor ine in bus ss analytics, University, Shivang majored three awesome which gave him a glimpse into ineering and data. aspects of STEM – maths, eng d, Shivang started With his business-sav vy min while studying. hunting down graduate gigs er organisation larg I wanted to a “I wanted to work for ting ora lab col of learn software because of the possibility ” he says. rld, wo the und aro m fro ple with peo engineering, engineering Shivang secured a graduate but also how a k – which led role at the Commonwealth Ban business works” engineer. to a permanent gig as a data
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TINA SMIGIELSKI
Work wins
in a team of tech-fluent These days, Shivang works and its par tners to share engineers enabling the bank their customers. data so they can better ser ve he recently wrapped up Then there was the project y – CommBank iQ. that became its own compan chance to work on both “During the project, I got the rkshops,” he says. coding tasks and running wo t future for himself. Shivang is securing the cooles as a thought leader And his ultimate goal is a role pany’s bigger-picture (someone in charge of a com goals). – Cassie Steel
Bachelor of Software Engineering (Honours) / Bachelor of Commerce (Business Analytics), Monash University
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Data Engineer, Commonwealth Bank
