Nikhil Goud

I’m a Full Stack Developer who enjoys early-stage chaos: vague briefs, no playbook, and shipping anyway. Over the last year, I’ve taken core product systems from zero to thousands of daily users with a strong bias for reliability and performance.

At Campus Track, I joined as an early engineer and helped evolve a single backend into a service-oriented platform across Node.js, Go, Spring Boot, Python, and TypeScript. I tuned read paths with Redis caching to sustain 3,200+ concurrent users, rebuilt the exam evaluation pipeline to be idempotent and retry-safe using Bull workers + Redis locks, and cut turnaround by 80–90% by removing duplicate-grading under load.

I also owned key platform migrations and scaling work: I moved code execution off Judge0 to a self-hosted sandbox (isolated runtimes, language pooling, resource caps), cutting per-execution cost by ~60% and removing the external concurrency ceiling. I designed Virtual Labs by extending the exam engine’s attempt/evaluation primitives, and built the Placement Automation Toolkit with a rule-based eligibility engine that reduced placement-cell manual effort by nearly 70%.

On the product side, I split an in-video coding platform into a TypeScript monorepo, moved video delivery to Cloudflare R2 with signed URLs, and shipped the player as a standalone npm SDK. I’ve also built RBAC with JWT + DB-backed role–permission mapping for 11+ roles, powering CampusGPT with permission-aware tool-calling and rollout without a second authorization surface. Earlier, I co-built an AI career-readiness SaaS at NextInterview, improving readiness scores by 35%, plus built MERN mentoring features at CodeNetra.