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Althaf Asard

Scalable Infrastructure.
Strategic Execution.

I help businesses transition from complex, legacy systems to cost-effective Cloud Native Architectures. Specializing in high-performance inventory systems and serverless migration strategies that reduce operational overhead.

Core Competencies

AWS Solutions Architecture
Cost Optimization
Event-Driven Systems
Legacy Migration
High-Volume Concurrency

The Professional Evolution

The Foundation

Full Stack Developer

Leading OTA Competitor • Early Phase

Joined as a trainee and rapidly took ownership of the guest-facing platform. Initially focused on feature delivery using React, Node.js, and MySQL.

The Bottleneck

The initial monolithic architecture struggled. We attempted to solve this with complex custom solutions:C++logic layers and self-managedKafka/StarRockspipelines.

Result: High operational costs & maintenance difficulty.

The Architect

Cloud Solutions Architect

Leading OTA Competitor • Present Role

Pivot strategy from "building from scratch" to "managed cloud integration." Redesigned the entire data pipeline to prioritize maintainability, cost-efficiency, and developer experience.

Modernization Strategy

Self-Hosted Kafka → AWS Kinesis & EventBridge

Data Engineering

Managed CDC Pipelines (DMS) & Bit-Packed Caching

Business Impact:

Eliminated the need for specialized C++ engineers, reducing hiring costs. Lowered infrastructure costs by moving to serverless event scheduling and managed services.

Architectural Impact

Operational Efficiency

Legacy → Managed Services

Retired a complex self-hosted Kafka/StarRocks pipeline. Architected a serverless CDC solution using AWS DMS and Kinesis, reducing operational maintenance by 60% while maintaining data integrity.

Lower TCO & High Reliability

AWS DMS • Kinesis • Lambda

Performance Engineering

High-Speed Suggestion Engine

Developed a low-latency room combination and suggestion algorithm in C++ using the Crow framework. Optimized heavy computation tasks that were previously bottlenecking the Node.js event loop.

Sub-millisecond Processing

C++ • Crow Framework • Algorithms

Transaction Reliability

Serverless Inventory Hold

Engineered a fail-safe booking system using EventBridge Scheduler and SQS. Prevented overbooking and race conditions by decoupling inventory release logic from the main application flow.

100% Data Consistency

EventBridge • SQS • MySQL

The Arsenal

AWS Cloud Native

ECS

Container Orchestration

Kinesis

Streaming

Lambda

Serverless Compute

IAM

Security

AWS DMS

Data Migration

EventBridge

Orchestration

SQS

Queuing

Valkey/Redis

Caching

RDS

Relational Database

S3

Storage

Engineering & Frontend

System Design

Architecture

Node.js

Core Backend

C++

Crow / Room Suggestion Algorithms

Bit Packing

Optimization

React

Frontend

Astro

Performance Framework

Data Persistence

MySQL

Primary DB

Elasticsearch

Search & Agg

StarRocks

Real-time OLAP

Neo4j

Graph Database