# Neel Shah

> Full Stack Software Engineer | UI/UX Designer

Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/neelshah

Passionate software developer, designer and problem solver who has professional experience with a variety of software solutions. My other interests include game design, music production, and technology education. I aim to absorb knowledge and enable others to do the same, while creating a robust and productive working environment for all. Please check out my portfolio for some of my recent projects!

## Work Experience
### Full Stack Software Engineer | UI/UX Designer @ recreationalcoder
Jan 2023 – Present | Austin, Texas, United States
Building upon experiences and skills I've gathered over the last decade, I am offering design and development services as a freelancer. I design and develop websites, full-stack applications, games, and much more! 

My goals are to build a portfolio of work that showcases my versatility and to work with organizations that help people in need.

### Software Engineering Manager @ Vericast
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Austin, Texas, United States
In this role, I manage a two-pizza team of experienced and skilled full-stack software engineers. Together, we deliver high quality web applications used as Internal Tools for Vericast's DM&T Operations teams. Our suite of tools include a robust set of features for digital advertising campaign management, monitoring, optimization, and reporting. We work closely with Product and UX peers to refine requirements, collaborate with various Engineering teams to integrate with their API, and have a mutually beneficial relationship with our user base to streamline their workflows.

### Senior Staff Software Engineer @ Vericast
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Austin, Texas, United States
As the technical lead for the Internal Tools team, I was responsible for the technical direction of the suite of Internal tools. During my time on the team, I spearheaded several projects including implementing a React Component Library that aligned with a new Horizon Design System designed by our UI/UX peers, creating and applying a standardized web application template throughout our suite of products, and architecting a campaign targeting data model overhaul which involved major changes to several microservices across several engineering teams.

### Staff Software Engineer @ Vericast
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Austin, Texas Area

### Staff Software Engineer @ MaxPoint
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Austin, Texas Area
In this role I took on more responsibility around cluster management and built a platform interaction interface known as the Platform Toolkit. I worked with other engineers and DevOps on a multi-year effort to deploy new technologies such as Apache Spark, Yarn and Parquet to maximize cluster resources. I was also responsible for major improvements to internal microservices for job scheduling and dataset sourcing.

I managed several interns who were responsible for kickstarting the Cascading to Spark migration for the company's most critical data workflows.

### Software Engineer @ MaxPoint
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016
As a Big Data Platform engineer, I was mainly responsible for data management within MaxPoint's petabyte-scale cluster and distributed data processing application development involving Hadoop, Cascading, and Spark. I spent time troubleshooting and resolving production issues with data processing on the cluster, provided metrics to engineering teams regarding their usage of the cluster, and building operational tooling for engineers and analysts.

I was also the Scrum Master for my team of approximately 10 engineers as part of the Agile methodology.

### Co Founder and CTO @ Zateo
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017
Formed business and technology plans
Product development and management
Mobile game programming using Unity
Audio asset creation

### Software Engineer Intern @ Texas Instruments
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012
Implemented a ECC memory algorithm based on a SECDED Hamming code inside of compiler source code

### Software Developer Intern @ Polycom
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Austin, Texas
Created an emulated version of a teleconferencing server in Java to help the UI team test their software earlier in the development process in the summer. Provided auxiliary support for this product and helped assimilate it internally in the fall.


## Education
### Master's in Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin

### Bachelor's in Computer Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin

### Summit High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/shahman
- Portfolio: https://recreationalcoder.dev/

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Last updated: 2026-03-31