Neel Murthy
Austin
Summary
Accomplished software development engineer at Amazon with expertise in AWS CDK and distributed systems. Achieved a 50% reduction in processing times through innovative optimizations. Demonstrated leadership in cross-functional teams, enhancing system reliability and security while delivering impactful solutions in real-time ad serving and supply forecasting.
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
Work History
Software Development Engineer
Amazon
Austin
03.2023 - Current
- Designed, built, and operated distributed systems supporting Amazon Location, Prime Video Advertising, and Supply Forecasting.
- Architected a 6+ TB Apache Lucene indexing platform spanning 10+ business verticals across three AWS regions.
- Designed and implemented a greenfield Availability Service using AWS CDK, Lambda, CloudAuth, DNS, CI/CD, monitoring, and request validation.
- Reduced IndexAAX runtime from 10+ hours to ~5 hours and North America pipeline runtime from 23+ hours to ~18 hours through distributed processing optimizations.
- Built React/Lambda diagnostic Explorer handling 72,000+ requests per month, streamlining incident investigations from hours to minutes.
- Led Prime Video Publisher Ad Server expansion into three AWS regions, coordinating five engineering teams and 15+ engineers.
- Delivered the first Far East production fleet supporting ~1 million concurrent viewers while reducing ad-serving latency by ~200 ms.
- Designed Amazon Location Console features, authored design docs, led AppSec engagements, built CloudWatch Synthetics canaries, created GovCloud development pipeline, and owned ORRs/COEs to enhance security and system reliability.
- Designed end-to-end GDPR automation for AWS GameSparks, unblocking launch readiness and automating customer-data deletion compliance.
Education
B.S. - Computer Science, Economics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
12-2022
Skills
- AWS CDK
- Lambda and ECS
- React and JavaScript
- Java and TypeScript
- Python and Kotlin
- EMR and DynamoDB
- S3 and CloudFront
- EventBridge and Step Functions
- AppConfig and CloudWatch
- HTML/CSS and Apache Lucene
- Distributed indexing and real-time ad serving
- System design and CI/CD
- Production operations and operational excellence
- Application security and threat modeling
- Supply forecasting and event-driven architectures
- AI/LLM tooling
Timeline
Software Development Engineer
Amazon
03.2023 - Current
B.S. - Computer Science, Economics
University of Wisconsin-Madison