Name: Performance on a Budget: Lessons from Building a Nonprofit SaaS Platform
Start: 2025-06-17T22:00:00.000Z
Location: Fastly Inc, NYC

The Bergen Makerspace will be open Wednesday 4/30 from 5-8 pm.

Our current location is in the old PAL building on the other end of the
Bergen County Academies campus at 284 Hackensack Avenue, Hackensack NJ.

Drop in to say hello and reconnect, or bring a show and tell, or a project to work on, or just to see the space and hang out.
16 years of age to enter.

Website: [https://bergenmakerspace.bergen.org](https://bergenmakerspace.bergen.org/)

Bergen Makerspace

Bryan

Michael Rudzinski

Makerspace Open Night 

284 Hackensack Ave

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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New York UX Speed and Web Performance Group

Paul Calvano

Sergey Chernyshev

Stephen D. Strowes

[In-person] Meet for SPEED

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.

**\>\>\> more detail TBD <<<**

Alex Chernyshev

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

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