# Neel Deshpande > Software Development Engineer II at AWS | Master’s in Computer Science | Architecting and Engineering Massive, Low Latency Distributed Systems Driving Billions in Business Impact Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/neeldeshpande With over five years of experience in software development, I work as a Software Development Engineer II at Amazon, contributing to the enhancement of critical systems supporting the company's vast operations. My work emphasizes large-scale data processing and optimization, ensuring seamless financial tracking of data center equipment and improving the accuracy of Amazon's retail catalog for a more reliable customer experience. My technical expertise includes Java, Python, and C#, which are integral to developing scalable and efficient solutions. I have contributed to optimizing Amazon’s supply chain systems by building services that employ stochastic models to improve inventory ordering decisions and maximize long-term free cash flow. My work is driven by a commitment to leveraging technology to enhance operational efficiency and deliver impactful solutions that align with organizational goals. ## Work Experience ### Software Development Engineer II @ Amazon Web Services Jan 2025 – Present | New York, United States Working with the AWS FinTech team to build, maintain and support backbone products that enable accounting of hundereds of billions of dollars worth of data center equipment per year such as racks, GPUs, compute, cooling devices, power appliances, loose gear, etc. to track all their financial records from purchase orders to freight adjustments, rebates, etc. This flow is used to directly feed into the quarterly financial statements used by AWS leadership Brian Olsavsky and John Felton to report the company's earnings as well as plan finances for the upcoming quarters/years. ### Software Development Engineer II @ Amazon Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Seattle, WA Powering Amazon’s supply chain systems to make optimal inventory ordering decisions on a continuous basis by building and maintaining services driving stochastic models that are capable of ingesting a slew of real-world inputs like demand forecasts, inventory value, storage capacities, etc., to compute the optimal OQ (order quantity) for millions of ASINs worldwide to maximize Amazon’s LTFCF (Long term free cash flow) ### Software Development Engineer @ Amazon Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | Seattle, Washington, United States Helping Amazon Prime become the world's most valuable subscription service - by building tech that drives growth of Prime's membership strength. ### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Northeastern University Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States CS6120 - Natural Language Processing under Prof. David Smith ### Software Engineer Intern @ Castalune Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States ### Software Engineer @ eQ Technologic Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Pune, Maharashtra, India ### Data Science Intern @ Symbl.ai Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 Working in direct association with the Chief Data Scientist at the startup, I helped train a model to identify "action items" in an English sentence using TensorFlow and Google's Word2Vec word embeddings. Also performed data preprocessing on a varied dataset for a model meant to add punctuation to machine-generated English sentences in Python. ### Software Engineer Intern @ Shalaka Technologies Pvt. Ltd Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Pune, Maharashtra, India Built a dynamic user interface to display real-time sensor data in an IoT architecture. ## Education ### Master's degree in Computer Science Northeastern University ### Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Computer Science Vishwakarma Institute of Information Technology ### SSC in High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates St. Vincent's High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/neel-deshpande --- Source: https://flows.cv/neeldeshpande JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/neeldeshpande/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13