Shashank Melkote

Engineering Manager

New York, New York, United States16 yrs 4 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over 10 years of experience in software development.
  • Led global engineering teams across multiple locations.
  • Expertise in building scalable AdTech solutions.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy AdTech leader with extensive experience in scalable systems and engineering management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering LeadershipAdtechEngineering ManagementFintechStart-ups

Other Skills

People ManagementCareer DevelopmentJavaEvent Driven ProgrammingProgram ManagementSoftware DevelopmentProblem SolvingSoftware Engineering PracticesAmazon DynamodbAmazon S3Shell ScriptingSoftware Project ManagementAmazon KinesisAWS LambdaPerformance Management

About

As a Software Development Manager at Amazon Ads with over 10 years of experience, I lead global engineering teams across New York, Tel Aviv, and Santa Monica. My work focuses on developing scalable solutions for advertiser registration, access control, and authorization systems, ensuring high availability, low latency, and seamless user experiences in Amazon's Advertising ecosystem. My core competencies include AdTech, distributed systems, people management, and program management. I am committed to driving innovation and delivering impactful solutions that support millions of users globally. My work is deeply rooted in building robust backend systems that enhance operational efficiency and support business growth.

Experience

16 yrs 4 mos
Total Experience
4 yrs
Average Tenure
2 mos
Current Experience

Netflix

Engineering Manager

Mar 2026Present · 2 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

  • Lead the Account Foundations team at Netflix Ads
Engineering Leadership

Amazon

Software Development Manager

Jul 2015Mar 2026 · 10 yrs 8 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

  • Engineering Manager (SDM) Leading a 15 person engineering team across New York and Tel Aviv, responsible for the end to end advertiser registration experience for all of Amazon Ads and powering the Amazon Ads Console and Amazon Ads API Gateway.
  • Engineering Manager(SDM) leading a 10 person engineering team across New York and Santa Monica responsible for Access Control for all advertisers at Amazon Ads. Our team is responsible for designing and maintaining scalable systems that manage access control and authorization across all of Amazon Advertising. We focus on delivering high-performance solutions that ensure low latency, high availability, and seamless access control experiences, supporting millions of authorization requests every day. My role involves overseeing the architecture and development of these systems, driving innovation to meet the evolving demands of the business
People ManagementCareer DevelopmentJavaEvent Driven ProgrammingProgram ManagementSoftware Development+27

Jpmorgan chase

Technology Associate

Sep 2013Jun 2015 · 1 yr 9 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

  • Corporate and Investment Banking - Credit Risk Technology
JavaSpring FrameworkSpring MVCAlgorithmsFinTech

Turbonomic, an ibm company

Software Engineer

Feb 2011Aug 2013 · 2 yrs 6 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area · On-site

  • Formerly known as VMTurbo. Part of the early engineering team (employee #12), owned the capacity planning application, which helped infrastructure teams using the product to predict their infrastructure usage and manage their costs effectively.
JavaStart-upsIT Infrastructure ManagementTechnology Start-upVirtualizationCore Java+3

Columbia university

Teaching Assistant, Next Generation Networks

Sep 2010Dec 2010 · 3 mos

  • Responsible for evaluation of assignments and projects of students, helping students with queries regarding the subject and helping the instructor with the coursework

Fujitsu

Research Intern

Jun 2010Aug 2010 · 2 mos

  • Worked with the Trusted Systems Innovation Group where my responsibility was to understand the working of the LLVM (Low Level Virtual Machine) compiler, KLEE - a symbolic representation tool and CLANG a C static analysis tool and use them to develop an environment for Automated Testing.

Philips healthcare

2 roles

Software Engineer

Jul 2008Jun 2009 · 11 mos

  • Worked for Philips Electronics India's Healthcare division in the “Cardiovascular Systems” group. My team was responsible for delivering the infrastructure on top of which medical applications are built. During my time there, I gained a strong grounding in various aspects of software development such as the definition of product requirements, system feature design, the importance of documentation, code optimization, as well as the critical need for completing high quality deliverables on time. These hands on experiences allowed me to hone my programming skills while giving me valuable exposure to being part of an effective multisite team.

Intern

Jan 2008May 2008 · 4 mos

  • Worked for the BU - "Ultrasound Systems"
  • Built expertise on the offline quantification tool QLABS which is used in image analysis
  • Developed a plug-in to provide a framework for integrating QLABS with the calculation engine; created a report generation tool for the plug-in

Iqura technologies

Summer Trainee

Jun 2006Jul 2006 · 1 mo

  • Understanding the basic working of the software industry and understand working as part of a team and learning software development life cycle. Developed sample applications for an automated telephone index and user generated graphs for sensor file data

Education

Columbia Engineering

Master of Science — Computer Science

Jan 2009Jan 2010

Manipal Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Engineering — Computer Science

Jan 2004Jan 2008

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