K Nikhil

Architected and shipped an autonomous academic orchestration platform end-to-end as a solo engineer. Designed a Map-Reduce PDF synthesis pipeline that chunks, sanitizes, and feeds dense academic material into LLM contexts without token overflow. Implemented a rigid JSON schema alignment layer on the Django backend to enforce strict data contracts and eliminate React rendering crashes. Built a Groq API router gateway with multi-vendor hot-swap support and a passwordless stateless Magic Link JWT authentication controller. Orchestrated a Docker Compose multi-service cluster pairing a multi-worker Gunicorn WSGI application server with an Nginx Alpine static asset proxy for zero-downtime container deployments. Offloaded heavy AI processing and WeasyPrint file compilation to an asynchronous Celery background task grid backed by a Redis message broker — eliminating HTTP request thread blocking under peak load. Implemented a React srcDoc iframe sandbox pipeline to isolate rendered presentation previews, preventing CSS style bleed and blocking DOM manipulation injection vectors. Hardened application security against OWASP core exploits — HttpOnly/Secure cookies, ORM-parameterized queries, and server-side environment variable management.