Byteridge Journey | Alok Ranjan Daftuar

Chronological Journey

Projects & Impact

Every engagement — internal client and contracted — that shaped the engineer and leader.

Jun 2023 — Present Solution Architect Engineering Lead

CCMR3 — CollectLogic

Financial Services · Debt Collection & Management Platform

Fintech Platform Modernisation

👥40+Team

📊500+Daily Active Users

📦100K+Records / Import

A prominent financial services company specialising in debt collection rebuilt their core platform — CollectLogic — from a legacy system into a modern, cloud-native application handling complex regulatory operations at scale.

Phase 1 — Engineering Lead

Architected containerised infrastructure; defined Docker/Kubernetes deployment topology on Azure AKS from scratch.
Designed and implemented GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines across all services — backend APIs, frontend, and integration workers.
Led complex database migration: schema normalisation, deduplication, and data integrity enforcement across a large legacy dataset.
Integrated third-party payment and data services: Live Vox, Tradeline, USAePay, Choice, and Razorpay.
Implemented Redis caching delivering significant, measurable performance improvements over the legacy system.
Coordinated 40+ team members across Dev, QA, and Leads to a successful Go-Live on April 29th 2024.

Phase 2 — Solution Architect

Defined long-term technical strategy, architectural roadmap, and cross-team design standards.
Drove system design reviews ensuring all new development aligns with architectural principles and NFRs.
Collaborated with Business Analysts to translate business requirements into concrete architecture decisions.
Mentored senior engineers and maintained alignment between stakeholder expectations and delivery.

Bulk Data Operations at Scale
Designed and delivered a high-throughput bulk import system supporting 100,000+ records per operation. The system handles both workflow-driven imports (via configurable business workflows) and direct generic update modules for mass record updates. Additionally, automated SFTP-based ingestion pipelines allow records to be updated from controlled SFTP endpoints configured via a third-party service — enabling scheduled, zero-touch data synchronisation for client integrations.

Automated & Manual Workflows — Quartz Scheduler Microservice
Built a dedicated workflow engine powered by Quartz Scheduler, deployed as a standalone microservice. The system supports both automated workflows (time-triggered or event-driven, running hands-free on schedule) and manual workflows (operator-initiated, configurable multi-step processes). Workflows orchestrate actions across the platform — from data updates and bulk operations to notifications and status transitions — giving business stakeholders full control over operational logic without touching code.

Custom SQL Query Module — Secure Read-only Execution
Delivered a powerful in-app SQL query execution module enabling DBAs and authorised stakeholders to write and run custom SQL queries directly within the platform — with results rendered inline. For security, the module is strictly read-only: all write operations are blocked at the application layer, ensuring no risk of accidental or unauthorised data modification while still giving technical users the flexibility they need for ad-hoc analysis and reporting.

Task Management Module
Built a purpose-built task system where administrators can create, assign, and track tasks for individual agents — enabling structured work management across the collections team. Tasks carry priority, due dates, status tracking, and assignment history, giving supervisors visibility into workload distribution and ensuring no follow-up or action item falls through the cracks.

Role-aware Dashboards — Agent & Admin Views
Designed a dual-mode dashboard system. Each agent sees a personalised dashboard reflecting their own daily progress — calls handled, tasks completed, targets vs. actuals — keeping individuals accountable and motivated. Admins get a consolidated team-wide view with the ability to filter by agent, date range, or metric — enabling supervisors to monitor overall team health and drill into individual performance without leaving the platform.

Architectural Decisions

Redis Caching Azure AKS GitHub Actions CI/CD Bulk Import Engine (100K+) SFTP Automated Ingestion Quartz Scheduler Microservice Read-only SQL Execution Module Role-aware Dashboards Schema Normalisation Containerised Microservices

Tech Stack

.NETReactNode.js MSSQLRedisAzure AKS DockerKubernetesGitHub Actions Quartz SchedulerSFTP Integration

Jan 2023 — May 2023 Engineering Lead

TASC — Threat Assessment & Security Centre

Enterprise Security · Crisis Management & Business Continuity Platform

Greenfield Build in 5 Months

👥5–8Team Size

🚀0 → 1Greenfield

TASC helps enterprises remain resilient — democratising crisis management, travel security, and business continuity by lifting the exclusivity that typically surrounds these critical practices.

Contributions & Impact

Led a compact 5–8 person team delivering a complete platform from greenfield to production.
Applied caching strategies ensuring reliable, low-latency performance for a security-critical platform.
Managed sprint execution with the Scrum Master; conducted detailed story grooming with BAs.
Architected and deployed the full application on AWS with complete CI/CD automation.

Tech Stack

React (Next.js)Node.jsTailwind PostgreSQLAWSGitHub Actions

Jan 2022 — Jan 2023 Engineering Lead

DeviceThread

Hospitality IoT · Smart Hotel Infrastructure & Device Management

IoT Platform for Smart Hotels

👥10+Team

🏨10–15Hotel Deployments

DeviceThread is the digital backbone for hospitality properties hosting smart devices — enabling owners, managers, and staff to monitor, manage, secure, and automate their entire digital infrastructure from a single platform.

Contributions & Impact

Led backend and frontend teams across 10+ members, coordinating microservices integration across IoT device layers.
Introduced message queue architecture for asynchronous device event processing — the foundational reliability decision for the platform.
Implemented caching to reduce response latency for real-time device state queries across all hotel properties.
Delivered platform from greenfield — live across 10–15 hotel properties at project close.
Managed containerised deployments and CI/CD pipelines via Docker and GitHub Actions on AWS.

Samsung SmartThings — Deep IoT Integration
SmartThings served as the backbone of all smart device control within the platform. The integration enabled real-time monitoring and remote management of smart locks, thermostats, lighting, switches, and sensors across hotel properties. Events from SmartThings were ingested asynchronously via message queues, processed, and surfaced to staff and management dashboards — ensuring no device state change was ever missed or delayed.

CloudBeds — Property Management System Integration
CloudBeds provided the hospitality operations layer — guest reservations, room assignments, check-in/check-out events, and billing. DeviceThread integrated deeply with the CloudBeds API so that device automations could be triggered by PMS events: room access credentials auto-provisioned on guest check-in, revoked on check-out, and thermostat schedules adjusted based on occupancy state — creating a fully connected, automated guest experience.

Architectural Decisions

SmartThings IoT Integration CloudBeds PMS Integration Message Queues (async events) Caching Layer Microservices Docker + AWS CI/CD via GitHub Actions

Tech Stack

Node.jsFlutterPostgreSQL AWSDockerGitHub Actions SmartThings APICloudBeds APIMessage Queues

Jan 2022 — Jun 2022 Engineering Lead

Arre CMS — Arre Voice

Media & Entertainment · Women-first Mobile App Content Platform

A content management system for Arre's women-first mobile app, Arre Voice — managing content delivery, user engagement monitoring, push notifications, and analytics.

Contributions & Impact

Led backend and frontend teams, ensuring seamless API integration between CMS and the mobile app.
Managed AWS cloud deployments and ArangoDB cloud database operations.
Delivered CMS features including notification dispatch, analytics dashboards, and content scheduling.

Tech Stack

ReactNode.jsArangoDBAWS

May 2020 — Dec 2020 Engineering Lead

ifUiWill

Social Mobile Application · Challenge & Task Collaboration

ifUiWill is a mobile platform where users create and issue challenges to each other — community-driven task engagement with a "you go, then I go" mechanic at its core.

Contributions & Impact

Designed the application architecture, built RESTful APIs, and led frontend development for a seamless cross-platform experience.
Managed a team of developers — code reviews, push notification integration, testing, and debugging.
Handled full deployment to both App Store and Play Store; received positive reception on usability.

Tech Stack

Node.jsReact NativeMongoDB AWSApp StorePlay Store

Dec 2020 — Dec 2021 Individual Contributor React Engineer

Microsoft — Bing & MS Admin Portal

External engineer via Byteridge · Global Search & Enterprise Productivity

Engaged as a contracted React engineer via Byteridge — contributing directly to two of Microsoft's most high-scale web products: Bing Search and the Microsoft 365 Admin Portal. Working in this environment meant operating at a scale where UI decisions affect millions of users daily.

Bing Search — Work Vertical

Contributed to the "Files Result in Work Vertical" feature — integrating work-related file search results directly into Bing's enterprise search experience.
Integrated the "Did You Mean?" suggestion service, surfacing alternative queries for typos and improving search accuracy and user satisfaction at scale.

Microsoft 365 Admin Portal

Modernised a legacy location service to consume updated API response schemas — ensuring accurate, real-time location data across enterprise admin workflows.
Participated in cross-functional code reviews, adhering to Microsoft's exacting standards for code quality and performance.

Tech Stack

React.jsTypeScript REST APIsEnterprise Design Systems

May 2019 — Apr 2020 React Engineer

Singlefile — Techstars

External engineer via Byteridge · Compliance Filing Platform (Techstars-backed)

SingleFile.io is a digital filing platform enabling companies, advisory firms, and investor organisations to streamline the required filing of secretary of state documents — turning complex regulatory workflows into clean digital experiences.

Contributions & Impact

Developed and enhanced user interfaces for compliance filing workflows — dynamic form rendering, multi-step validation, and guided filing flows.
Implemented robust client-side state management to ensure form data integrity across complex, multi-field compliance submissions.
Collaborated with backend teams to integrate APIs and handle edge cases in regulatory data requirements.
Transformed complex regulatory filing tasks into intuitive UI flows — measurably improving user efficiency.
Operated in a Techstars-grade engineering culture: fast iteration, high code standards, strong product ownership.

Tech Stack

ReactReact NativeTailwindAWSREST APIs

Nov 2018 — Apr 2019 .NET Engineer

Rhythmos — Unity Dockworks

Developer Tooling · Automated Documentation Generation from Source Code

Unity Dockworks was an application designed to generate structured technical documentation directly from source code — pulling repositories, analysing each file, and producing human-readable documentation automatically.

Contributions & Impact

Designed and implemented backend APIs in .NET to automate documentation generation from code repository analysis.
Built and optimised backend services enabling seamless integration with diverse repository structures and file types.
Collaborated closely with frontend developers on API contracts and data flow; contributed to team bug fixes and iterations.

Tech Stack

.NETREST APIsSource Code Analysis

Apr 2018 — Oct 2018 Frontend Engineer

Aeries — Project Mitra

Web Application · Full Frontend Ownership

Contributions & Impact

Owned the end-to-end frontend build with no predefined UX designs — conceptualised, designed, and built the full UI from scratch.
Integrated APIs ensuring seamless communication between frontend and backend services.
Conducted thorough frontend testing and managed cloud deployment of the production build independently.

Tech Stack

ReactREST APIsCloud Deployment

2014 — Apr 2018 Full Stack Developer

Valley Proteins — "Blue" CRM

Enterprise CRM · Sales & Lead Management Modernisation

Valley Proteins required a full rebuild of their legacy desktop VB-based CRM — into a web-accessible system with a normalised database, real-time sales reporting, and a clean, maintainable architecture.

Contributions & Impact

Sole developer for ~3 years — owned everything: database design, stored procedures, APIs, full frontend, and IIS deployment.
Designed the complete database schema and wrote complex stored procedures to replace a tightly coupled, un-normalised legacy data layer.
Built a custom Crystal Reports module delivering numerous uniquely specified reports with precision and iteration speed.
Handled production deployment on a physical IIS server via remote desktop — total end-to-end ownership including ops.
Maintained daily client communication — gathering requirements directly and translating them into working software.
This project established the foundation of self-reliance, full-cycle ownership, and direct client communication that has defined every role since.

Tech Stack

.NETjQueryBootstrapMSSQL Crystal ReportsIIS

Core Competencies

Technical Arsenal

The full-stack of skills forged across every engagement.

Frontend Engineering

Backend Engineering

Cloud & Infrastructure

CI/CD & DevOps

Databases & Data

Architecture & Design

AI & Integrations

Cost Optimization

Leadership & Methodology

The Story

A Decade of Growth

The Byteridge journey began in 2014 as a fresh MCA graduate joining a product consultancy. The first project — Valley Proteins' Blue CRM — was a trial by fire: sole developer, three years, daily client calls, and total ownership from database design to IIS deployment. It is the best possible foundation a career can ask for.

"Four years of owning every layer of a production system — by yourself — teaches you more than any architecture course ever could."

The years that followed brought increasing breadth. Aeries (Project Mitra) deepened full-cycle frontend ownership. Rhythmos' Unity Dockworks was an early introduction to developer tooling — building .NET APIs to generate documentation directly from source code analysis. Then came Singlefile (Techstars): a contracted engagement building compliance filing workflows in a fast-moving, investor-backed environment where engineering standards were high and iteration was relentless.

The Microsoft engagement from 2020 to 2021 — contributing to Bing Search and the MS Admin Portal — was a defining test of quality. Working within Microsoft's engineering culture meant operating at a scale where even a small UI decision could affect millions of users. Building the "files result in work vertical" and the "Did You Mean?" suggestion service for Bing, alongside modernising location services in the Admin Portal, instilled a discipline around code quality and cross-functional collaboration that elevated every project that followed.

Back at the helm of full teams, DeviceThread in 2022 required leading 10+ engineers to build an IoT management platform from zero — and the architectural decisions made there, introducing message queues for asynchronous device event handling and caching for real-time state queries, became a repeating pattern. TASC followed immediately: a crisis management platform delivered greenfield in five months with a lean team.

CCMR3 represents the culmination. Coordinating 40+ developers, QA engineers, and leads through a full fintech platform modernisation in Phase 1 — then stepping up as Solution Architect to define the roadmap and deliver Phase 2 capabilities including bulk import of 100,000+ records and SFTP-driven automated data pipelines — is the full expression of a decade spent building, shipping, and growing.

"From manually deploying via RDP on a physical IIS server to architecting Kubernetes-based microservices for 500+ daily users — the throughline has always been total ownership."

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