Name: [In-person] Meet for SPEED
Start: 2025-06-19T22:00:00.000Z
Location: Fastly Inc, NYC

What does it take to ship a production-ready platform on a tight budget, with a team of interns and freelancers, and still care about performance—both in code and in people?

In this talk, Akshay Nair will share the journey of helping a small nonprofit team build and launch a SaaS platform designed to support career-readiness programs in public schools. From navigating performance constraints in a legacy codebase to adapting to constant developer churn, regulatory hurdles, and minimal infrastructure spend, this is a case study in getting things done without reinventing the wheel.

Rather than just focusing on metrics and optimization tricks, Akshay will talk about what “performance” looks like when the real challenges are scattered across team structure, resource limitations, and long-term sustainability. If you've ever had to do more with less, or balance people and process while still shipping, this one’s for you.

**Akshay Nair** is a Software Engineer at [Speakhire](https://speakhire.org/), where he’s leading the development of a bespoke platform that supports all operations for a nonprofit organization. he specializes in software engineering for the web, and before this, he spent nearly a decade at a multinational bank building web products across multiple markets as part of the core engineering team. He’s been an attendee of this meetup in the past, and he’s excited for the chance to give back and share some of the lessons learned along the way.

We will have **food and drinks** and as always, we are going to have **geekaways** with **geeky prizes** provided by our sponsors.

**Agenda:**
6:00PM - Arrive at the venue, meet other members
6:15PM - Event starts
6:30PM - **Performance on a Budget: Lessons from Building a Nonprofit SaaS Platform** (Akshay Nair)
7:15PM - Q&A
7:45PM - "Books and Stuff" geekaways
8:00PM - Open Discussion, Networking

Make sure to fill out your legal name and **bring your ID** to show at security desk.

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New York UX Speed and Web Performance Group

Sergey Chernyshev

Alex Chernyshev

Akshay Nair

Stefan Schwan

Amy (Etheredge) Jenkins

Eric G.

Nikolas

Seraphim Sakiewicz

Maxim R

Patrick Clarke

Eric G

Jordy Hernandez

Lasha

Jessica Rocha

Performance on a Budget: Lessons from Building a Nonprofit SaaS Platform

Fastly Inc, NYC

Join up for an opportunity to work together on optimizing our sites.

Have a site you'd like us to analyze? Add it here - [https://bit.ly/meet4speed-submit](https://bit.ly/meet4speed-submit)

You can benefit even if you can't edit your site right now - we will be happy to share the knowledge. We'll all learn how to see what's slow and how to make it fast!

Here is what you can learn:

* Identify optimization opportunities using WebPageTest and Chrome DevTools
* Become a master in reading the network waterfall.
* Understand the most of the performance flame chart.
* Learn the latest trends in measuring site speed.

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