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Associate Architect / Tech Lead HT Media Ltd. (Hindustan Times)
Digital media & publishing · New Delhi, India
What Deepak Kumar Jha did in this role:
- Architected and scaled backend services for LiveHindustan.com to 60M+ monthly users, sustaining stability through elections, cricket finals and national breaking news.
- Designed CDN + Redis + Elasticsearch caching, cutting API response times from 400–600ms to sub-100ms under peak load.
- Directed greenfield development of the Hindustan Smart City platform — architecture, API standards and deployment pipelines from day one.
- Managed a team of 5 backend engineers; introduced CI/CD, code review and TDD practices across the function.