Built a high-performance salary aggregation engine powering Industry Pages, processing 10M+ compensation records with precomputed medians and percentiles, delivering responses in less than 50ms query latency.
Led PostgreSQL RDS upgrade from 12.9 to 17.4 across all services with zero data loss and near-zero downtime. Implemented async workflows to buffer salary submissions during read-only window.
Launched Interactive Offers, a modern candidate-facing offer experience with ATS integrations, improving employer adoption and engagement metrics.
Improved system reliability and performance by auditing backend workflows, optimizing slow queries, and hardening ingestion pipelines against malformed data.
Actively mentored junior engineers and contributed to architectural decisions, release processes, and long-term backend strategy in a small, fast-paced team.
Led end-to-end planning, design, and technical implementation of workspace restriction feature, ensuring compliance with enterprise needs, which resulted in increased ARR by $4 Million.
Proactively addressed system impact by implementing NewRelic alerts, reducing service degradation incidents by 50% and maintaining high standards of observability.
Improved performance on the All Workspaces Page for larger teams by reducing the time to first interaction from ~26 seconds to ~0.6 seconds.
Led the release of the Data Governance initiative. Implemented an asynchronous workflow using Temporal that facilitated controlled migration for large enterprise teams without overwhelming any internal systems, ensuring stability and seamless
transition within 7 hours for 600+ enterprise teams.
Improved service simplicity through the redesign of the archival layer for the Chronicle service (which powers the Activity feed ↗️ in Postman), resulting in better control over the archival process and reduced dependencies.
Streamlined workspace creation process with Workspace Templates, resulting in 60% increase in usage of templates Week-over-Week.
Developed and deployed standalone UI components to NPM, enabling cross-team code reuse and enhancing development efficiency.
Optimized search performance for products by implementing AWS CloudSearch, resulting in a remarkable average response time reduction from 2.5 seconds to 0.4 seconds. Led the end-to-end implementation, including proof of concept (POC) validation and seamless data migration using Lambda functions.
Transformed a legacy system from JavaScript to TypeScript, significantly improving maintainability and code quality. Introduced Lambda architecture to the team, leveraging serverless computing for services where it provided optimal performance and scalability.
Enhanced system observability by implementing proactive failure detection alarms. This initiative expedited the resolution of critical production issues, minimizing downtime and ensuring smooth operation.
Enhanced Admin and Super Admin flows, incorporating features that facilitated upselling existing features for Admins and resulting in increased revenue.
Developed and released a major version upgrade for the Newsletter system, significantly improving performance and resolving bugs.
Built a comprehensive digital estate planning platform addressing the $200+ billion in digital assets lost annually, helping families avoid the typical 6+ month search for critical documents during grief.
Architected a zero-knowledge security system with client-side AES-256 encryption ensuring no plaintext data ever touches the server, providing bank-level security for sensitive documents, passwords, and cryptocurrency keys.
Designed an intelligent heartbeat monitoring system with automated daily check-ins and multi-channel family alerts (email, Discord, Telegram) to handle user incapacitation scenarios.
Implemented Shamir’s Secret Sharing algorithm with configurable trust levels for trusted contacts, enabling secure vault recovery while maintaining cryptographic integrity.
Developed end-to-end full-stack solution including billing system, real-time notifications, transparent activity logging, and planned integrations with password managers and cloud storage providers.
Developed a high-performance CLI tool in Go for automated Git repository backup and synchronization across multiple hosting platforms (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Gitea, Forgejo).
Implemented concurrent processing architecture enabling simultaneous backup of multiple repositories with configurable clone strategies (bare, shallow, mirror, full).
Achieved significant community adoption with 500+ GitHub stars and 18,000+ Docker downloads, addressing critical developer need for repository data resilience.
Designed YAML-based configuration system with customizable backup directories and periodic synchronization, providing proactive solution against account bans and platform issues.
Built with minimal storage optimization and cross-platform compatibility, ensuring efficient backup processes for developers managing multiple repositories.
Developed an in-house system for sending out newsletters to the subscribers on akashrajpurohit.com.
Implemented a system which takes in the content of newsletter from markdown files which renders the web version of the newsletter and generate email HTML from it and send it to all the subscribers.
Also build an automated solution which is able to send newsletters on future dates, helping in writing newsletters in advance.
Achieved a stable system with 100% delivery rate with a retrying mechanism for failures.
Developed a static site showcasing a satirical yet insightful list of professional alternatives for corporate communication.
Implemented features such as a fuzzy search on the content, favoriting options, and PDF printing for improved user experience.
Achieved exceptional traction with 100K+ visitors within 24 hours of launch and currently registered 500K+ visitors globally, generating buzz on Hackernews and Reddit.
Scaled infrastructure by migrating to static export and migrating to Cloudflare to leverage the enhanced CDN support and cache control.
Led the development of a real-time word guessing game using Node.js and Socket.io, enabling players to create teams and participate in an engaging gameplay experience.
Implemented a dynamic scoring system where teams earn points based on the consensus of letter choices in guessing the word.
Successfully collaborated with college peers during the COVID-19 period, taking charge of project planning, task delegation, and overseeing backend and frontend development.
Gained valuable experience in project management, and honed majorly on backend development skills while also contributing to frontend tasks.
Education
Vidyavardhini’s College Of Engineering & Technology
Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology | June 2016 - June 2020
Graduated with CGPA of 8.4 / 10.
Honors & Awards
[2020] Top 5 Finalist / 1200 Students, Smart India Hackathon 2020
