Akash Balaji Mali

● Designed, built and deployed Unshackled.club & Greencard.inc platforms (Django and Next.js), supporting community memberships, newsletters, ecomm, courses and marketplaces ● Established engineering processes by standardizing code reviews, CI/CD, and deployment pipelines & structuring tech teams to streamline development processes ● Architected multi-level caching solution using Redis, Server Data Cache, CDN, and browser caching, while implementing optimistic updates, resulting in 70% faster page response time and minimized serverless cold starts for global users ● Developed a connection pooling solution for the serverless backend Lambdas, leading to a 30% reduction in query overhead, guaranteeing a consistent response even during unpredictable traffic ● Engineered e-commerce and marketplace features, integrating payment gateways, user authentication, admin dashboards, analytics & CMS for product management, increasing user engagement by 40%