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RECON 2026 Event Platform

A full-stack platform for a 3-day DEFCON-style cybersecurity fest, serving 600+ concurrent users across public pages, participant portals, admin operations, QR/pass flows, treasure hunt gameplay, sponsors, shop redemptions, and storage.

RECON 20263-day cyber fest, 600+ concurrent users
600+ concurrent users3-day cyber festCTO ownershipReact PWAFastAPI backend
owned

Chief technical ownership across frontend PWA, backend API, auth, admin tools, deployment architecture, treasure-hunt systems, CTF assets, and event operations.

the hard part

Building one coherent platform across public marketing, authenticated participant workflows, admin operations, live event tooling, and security-sensitive treasure-hunt surfaces under live event concurrency.

the result

Created the operating layer for RECON 2026 and handled 600+ concurrent users without degradation across organizer, participant, admin, partner, and challenge-team workflows.

stack

React 19, TypeScript, Vite, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Redis, Vercel, AWS