Web·2024 — 2025 (Smart India Hackathon Winner 1st / 1,500+)
SEVA First National Platform
Distributed High-Concurrency Architecture Serving 50,000+ Student Registrations — Ministry of Education
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Registrations
50,000+ Students
Across 28 Indian states
Spike Latency
180 ms Response
Go & Redis microservices
Hackathon Rank
1st / 1,500+ Teams
Ministry of Education Winner
The Problem
National student registration deadlines generate sharp, unpredictable traffic spikes. When thousands of applicants submit documents and assessments simultaneously, traditional monolithic architectures fail from database connection exhaustion, session bottlenecks, and thread starvation.
Engineering Highlights
- Go Microservice Ingestion: Built high-throughput registration ingestion services in Go utilizing concurrent Goroutines to offload verification workloads without blocking database pools.
- Redis Distributed Shielding: Deployed in-memory token-bucket rate limiting and session caching, buffering peak query bursts and eliminating repetitive relational reads.
- PostgreSQL Data Partitioning: Structured transactional schemas with strict ACID isolation and optimized B-tree indexing to prevent race conditions during submission deadlines.
- Team Engineering Leadership: Directed a team of six engineers across backend architecture, continuous integration pipelines, and Ministry of Education compliance audits.
Results
Served over 50,000 registered students across 28 Indian states with 1,000+ daily visitors, reducing peak deadline response times from 4.2 seconds to 180 milliseconds and winning 1st place at Smart India Hackathon among 1,500+ competing universities.