Unacademy
Authorization and Platform Services
Core platform services across authorization, notifications, logging, monitoring, infrastructure, and production reliability.
Platform systems create leverage when they reduce repeated decisions for product teams. This work focused on making shared backend capabilities more centralized, observable, scalable, and cost-aware.
Problem
As backend systems and teams grew, authorization, visibility, infrastructure, and communication reliability became architectural bottlenecks.
Approach
Led authorization and notification platforms, migrated core backend servers from EC2 to Kubernetes, set up backend logging and alerting, and drove infrastructure cost optimization.
Impact
Reduced cloud spend by around 40%, improved production visibility, and strengthened core platform capabilities used across the wider engineering organization.
Key Takeaways
- Authorization and notification platforms become strategic as product surfaces multiply.
- Infrastructure migrations should improve availability, scaling, and operating clarity at the same time.
- Cost optimization works best when paired with better observability and ownership.