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Neel Shah

Atlanta

Summary

Senior Software Engineer specializing in backend platform development, cloud-native architecture, and real-time advertising decisioning systems for large-scale retail media platforms.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Software Engineer

The Home Depot
10.2023 - Current
  • Lead backend engineering initiatives within the Product Listing Ads platform, a core advertising decisioning platform used to determine which sponsored product ads are served across The Home Depot digital experience.
  • Drive modernization efforts to move platform workflows from batch-based processing toward streaming and near real-time architectures, improving responsiveness, scalability, and operational efficiency.
  • Participate in architecture and design discussions for backend services, data pipelines, and cloud-native platform components, helping define technical direction for high-impact retail media initiatives.
  • Own workstreams end to end, including technical discovery, solution design, implementation, testing, deployment, production monitoring, and stakeholder communication.
  • Build and enhance distributed services using Java, Node.js, Google Cloud Platform, Pub/Sub, Cloud Functions, GKE, Kubernetes, Docker, and supporting cloud infrastructure.
  • Incorporate enterprise AI tooling and knowledge-management workflows, including reusable Glean-based skills and processes that help teams search internal resources, standardize practices, and improve developer productivity.
  • Present technical work, design decisions, and delivery updates to engineering partners and leadership while collaborating across product, platform, data, and advertising technology teams.

Software Engineer

The Home Depot
09.2021 - 10.2023
  • Developed backend services for the Product Listing Ads platform within The Home Depot’s Orange Apron Media organization, supporting ad processing, eligibility, ranking, and decisioning workflows.
  • Built and maintained scalable APIs, services, and backend components used to process product advertising data and support sponsored listing experiences on The Home Depot website.
  • Contributed to cloud-native application development using Java, Node.js, Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Docker, GKE, and related managed cloud services.
  • Supported data processing workflows for advertising platform use cases, helping improve service reliability, processing consistency, and maintainability across backend systems.
  • Partnered with senior engineers, product owners, and cross-functional stakeholders to clarify requirements, break down technical work, and deliver production-ready features.
  • Participated in code reviews, unit testing, integration testing, debugging, and production support to improve code quality and reduce operational risk.
  • Helped maintain CI/CD readiness, containerized application deployments, service observability, and documentation for backend platform services.

Education

Master of Science - Management Information Systems

University of Illinois At Springfield
Springfield, IL
12-2023

Skills

  • Languages: Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, SQL
  • Cloud Platforms: GCP, AWS
  • Backend Frameworks & Runtime: Spring Boot, Nodejs, Expressjs, REST APIs, Microservices
  • Google Cloud Services: Google Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud Functions, Cloud Storage, Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring
  • Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes
  • Data & Messaging: Event-Driven Architecture, Streaming Data Processing, Batch Processing, Message Queues, Data Pipelines
  • Datastores: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, BigQuery
  • DevOps & CI/CD: Git, GitHub, Jenkins, CI/CD Pipelines, Containerized Deployments
  • Engineering Practices: System Design, Code Reviews, Unit Testing, Integration Testing, API Design, Production Support, Agile/Scrum, Technical Documentation
  • AI & Productivity Tooling: Glean, Enterprise Search, Reusable AI Skills, Knowledge Automation, Developer Productivity Workflows

Certification

  • AWS Certified Developer — Associate
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Associate
  • Google Cloud Certified — Professional Cloud Architect
  • Google Cloud Certified — Professional Cloud Developer
  • Google Cloud Certified — Associate Cloud Engineer

Timeline

Senior Software Engineer

The Home Depot
10.2023 - Current

Software Engineer

The Home Depot
09.2021 - 10.2023

Master of Science - Management Information Systems

University of Illinois At Springfield
Neel Shah