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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
Atlanta, GA
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
Atlanta, GA
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