Personal Biography

• desai.neil@gmail.com ·(408) 807-0453 · linkedin.com/in/neildesai1/ · desai.neil.com

I have over 20 years of experience as a Software Developer and Manager in the San Francisco Bay Area.  I am highly analytical in leading and executing software development across different domains.  I have hands on experience hiring engineers, building scalable software, and developing in an agile environment.  

I have a Bachelors Degree in Engineering Computer Science at UC Davis and have Technical Certifications in different Tech Stacks including AI Models.  I am passionate in learning new areas and having a positive impact in the professional group that I am part of.    

Management Experience

I bring experience in the Software Domain 

• Delivering Products End to End in the Software Cycle Planning, Designing, Developing, Testing, and Deployment 
• Leveraged Agile Scrum and Technical Design to implement applications that are more scalable and robust for consumers 
• Successfully work with Product, Vendors, and Development Peers in negotiating and agreeing on Roadmap Planning and Delivery of Cross-Functional Requirements

Notable Experience

• Received rapid promotion from Developer to Manager to Director by meeting and exceeding performance expectations
• Leveraged leadership skills to develop high-performing cross-functional teams for the receipt management product line in US, South America, and India which included promotions for individuals to higher level positions such as management 
• Contributed to streamlining software engineering, QA, and release procedures through utilization of Agile methodology, JIRA, Microservices using Java Spring Framework REST Services, Azure, Mongo and SQL, and New Relic 
• Optimized robustness and functionality for the Receipt Management product during key Booking Milestone initiatives. Reduced technical debt by creating new services and removing functionality from the receipt monolithic service with Receipt Publish and Size Packing features to exceed business SLAs.
• Launched seamless migration of product services to the Azure Cloud by formulating and rolling out effective solutions, comprising of new and existing services for automation. Migrated the first set of application from our private datacenters to the Azure Cloud 
• Partnered with architects and engineers on initial phase of development to breakdown stages of work, agree on technologies used, and layout out dependencies with other product teams. Redesigned the reporting engine to provide real time data for supply chain users leveraging RabbitMQ/Kafka, React/Typescript, SQL, with Java Spring Boot technology
• Recognized future leaders and top performers as well as delivered coaching on accountability and responsibility as a key member of the global leadership program.
•  Developed and drilled down on client monitoring proof of concept, integrating business transaction logic with the performance monitoring platform, implementing solutions to improve agent performance overhead with local cache, and investigating performance issues in our agent with the IBM Websphere JVM in cooperation with the IBM JIT (compiler) development team

Build on my Experiences

In the last year I briefly moved into the Real Estate Sector as an active investor and consultant.  I was able to deliver on key metrics for new and current investments in my portfolio.  I further increased my experience, working with stakeholders to build successful solutions from requirements, design, and delivery phases.  

• Increasing Portfolio of Private Lending Deals 
• Management and Maintenance of Multi-Unit Rental Properties
• Increasing Net Operating Income across Investments

However, in this period I realized my passion was for building software products and using evolving technology to be innovative and a problem solver. I used the similarities in Real Estate to transition back into software.  For instance, being creative to deliver products in high pressured and critical periods.  In my transition, I improved my technical skills in the following: 

• Backend: Cloud Deployment, Microservice Architecture, Programming Languages (Python, Java, C#)
• Frontend : Improving knowledge in React, Typescript 
• Knowledge in New Areas: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, GEN-AI 

Enjoyment Outside of Work

• Hobbies such as Sports, Playing Different Musical Instruments (Piano, Trombone)
• Love of History and Learning Different Cultures
• Spending time with family of 4 kids