Akhil Polsani

Marsh

Dallas, TX

December 2024 – Present

Revamped UI/UX of investment dashboard by translating complex financial datasets into accessible Recharts and Ag-Grid components; presented findings to fix the three biggest causes of crashes.
Built reusable chart components and data tables with Recharts and Ag-Grid, collaborating with the UX team to transform complex financial datasets into clear and accessible visual formats.
Architected and deployed a dual-database system using PostgreSQL and MongoDB to process and store investment transaction histories, reducing data retrieval latency by 35% for reporting applications.
Leveraged AWS Lambda and API Gateway to handle real-time calculations and reporting workloads, reducing backend latency by over 40% for complex queries.
Implemented continuous integration using GitHub Actions and containerized applications with Docker, automating builds, tests, and deployments to staging and production environments.
Facilitated daily stand-ups and sprint planning sessions, resulting in the successful launch of 5 new platform features while adhering to all compliance requirements and data security standards.

Alliant Group

Houston, TX

May 2023 – November 2024

Pioneered a React-based front-end architecture for a B2B transaction platform, allowing clients to handle payment, settlement, and reconciliation, completing the project 2 weeks ahead of schedule.
Developed dynamic user interfaces for complex workflows like multi-step transaction approvals, audit trails, and compliance reporting, reducing manual overhead by 60% through UI automation and contextual prompts.
Engineered seamless, bi-directional data flow between React front-end and PostgreSQL backend via REST APIs and WebSockets, guaranteeing real-time updates on 99.99% transaction statuses across modules.
Collaborated with backend engineers on PostgreSQL data models and optimized queries for analytics reports that handled over 500,000 monthly transactions.
Centralized application state using Redux, building custom hooks and fine-grained error boundaries; enhanced system resilience and reduced debugging time by 25% as the sole individual contributor.
Optimized dashboard performance by configuring Webpack for production builds and implementing lazy loading techniques to reduce initial load time by 40% across all dashboards.

Time spade

India

March 2021 – December 2022

Contributed to the development of a CRM dashboard by building modular front-end components in React.js and Bootstrap, enabling the sales team to manage leads, activities, and customer feedback efficiently.
Designed Express.js server routes and integrated MongoDB collections to support client interaction logs, user profiles, and internal performance tracking.
Hardened CRM dashboard security by integrating custom middleware for authentication and form validation, decreasing unauthorized access attempts by 20% within the first quarter.
Overhauled data-fetching architecture utilizing Axios and async/await, accelerating the rendering speed of UI views relying on nested relational data by 45%.
Deployed features to staging and production environments via Heroku, while also creating and managing Git workflows to support collaborative development.
Initiated end-to-end testing using Postman, which revealed performance bottlenecks and configuration issues, leading to a 30% enhancement in API response times.
Worked closely with senior developers to improve code readability, participate in code reviews, and follow SCRUM principles throughout sprint cycles.

Full Stack Developer