Headline

Software Engineer @ELT Global | Full-Stack & Security | Next.js · React · Express · NestJS | CERT-In Hall of Fame · Ministry of Electronics & IT, India

About

Most engineers secure systems after they're built. I do it while building them. At ELT Global, I work across a platform running 100k+ monthly users and 16M+ requests/month — spanning NestJS backend services and React/Next.js frontends. Not as a specialist locked to one layer. As someone who owns the full picture. That same instinct extends to security. I was recognized in the CERT-In Hall of Fame by India's Ministry of Electronics & IT for reverse-engineering a university's backend, mapping the full attack surface, and disclosing vulnerabilities that protected 2 lakh+ students' data — before anyone exploited it. Picked up by two of Kerala's largest media outlets - Onmanorama and Mathrubhumi. I don't just ship features. I think about what breaks them, who exploits them, and how to build so that neither is easy. If you're building something that needs to scale and hold — let's talk.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

antigravity

claude code

codex

github copilot

kimi

opencode

Work experience

Frontend Engineer at ELT Global Private Limited, Aug 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Full-stack contributor on a high-DAU EdTech platform 100k+ monthly users, 16M+ requests/month across a student-facing LMS and an admin operations portal. Backend contributions span NestJS services for auth flows, device security, exam analytics, and result tracking. On the frontend, delivered key modules across schedule management, analytics dashboards, fee management, and SDUI-driven interfaces among many others across both products. Also built automation tooling that eliminated repetitive overhead for both engineering and business teams — spanning dev infrastructure monitoring, business workflow automation, and internal operations tooling. Established a type-safe OpenAPI + Codegen pipeline cutting integration overhead by ~60%, improved page performance by 35–40%, and cut a key analytics payload by ~87% through client-side derivation. Leveraged MCP-integrated agentic workflows across the engineering cycle accelerating delivery, maintaining pixel-perfect design consistency, and increasing overall engineering throughput.

Full-stack Developer at Freelance, Jul 2023 - Aug 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos, Kozhikode, Kerala, India

Education

University of calicut

Public links

github: https://github.com/arshadakl

leetcode: https://leetcode.com/arshadakl

arshadakl.in: https://arshadakl.in/