Selected Desai InfoTech projects: websites, platforms and cloud workloads developed, migrated and hosted on Microsoft Azure with CI/CD automation, for Seattle-area nonprofits, cultural organizations and events.
North America Fashion Week: WordPress migration to Azure with CI/CD and online voting
North America Fashion Week (NAFW) · Redmond, WA · Visit live site
Migrated the website of North America Fashion Week, a Redmond charity fashion event, to Microsoft Azure with infrastructure as code, automated GitHub Actions deployments, online ticketing and a public voting system.
Challenge
North America Fashion Week runs an annual charity fashion event in Redmond, with designers, models, sponsors, vendors and media all applying online. Its custom WordPress site needed dependable cloud hosting, a repeatable deployment process, and online voting and ticketing.
Solution
Desai InfoTech migrated the custom WordPress site to managed Azure hosting, defined the environment as infrastructure as code, and moved releases to GitHub Actions. Scheduled workflows automate routine event communications and post-event tasks, and the site publishes structured data and an llms.txt file so AI search engines can understand it.
Results
Cloud hosting on Microsoft Azure, reproducible from infrastructure as code
Every change deployed automatically through GitHub Actions
Online voting and ticketing for the Fashion Awards and events
Universe Crown Impact: Next.js pageant platform with registration, voting and payments on Azure
Universe Crown Impact, an AmPowering initiative · Washington and Oregon · Visit live site
Designed and built a fast, static-first Next.js website and registration platform for an international pageant organization, hosted on Azure Static Web Apps with infrastructure as code and CI/CD.
Challenge
Universe Crown Impact runs several pageants, including Mrs Universe America and India Washington USA, each with registration, public voting, ticketing, sponsorships and payment plans. It needed a premium, fast public website and a dependable registration back end at a nonprofit-friendly cost.
Solution
Desai InfoTech built a static-first Next.js site with optimized responsive images and a TypeScript back end for registrations, voting, sponsorships, payment plans and reporting, with automated tests. It runs on Azure Static Web Apps with a managed Azure back end, monitoring and alerting, all defined in infrastructure as code and deployed through GitHub Actions, and was planned against a documented Azure cost plan.
Results
Fast static-first website with modern image formats and no paid image service
Registration, public voting, sponsorship and payment-plan workflows in one platform
Monitoring and alerting on the production environment
Separate, automated infrastructure and application pipelines
AI-search ready with llms.txt and structured data, built with AI-assisted engineering
Migrated a Seattle-area nonprofit's legacy website to a fast Astro and React site on Azure Static Web Apps, with serverless forms, online donations, and automated staging and production deployments.
Challenge
AmPowering runs programs ranging from food distribution and interim shelter to women's empowerment and youth leadership. Years of existing website content had to be preserved in the move, and contact, volunteer and donation forms needed to stay spam-free while keeping hosting costs low.
Solution
Desai InfoTech migrated the legacy content into Markdown and rebuilt the site with Astro, Tailwind CSS and React on Azure Static Web Apps. Serverless Azure Functions handle contact and volunteer forms with spam protection, Azure email services send notifications, and online donations are built in. GitHub Actions deploys to separate staging and production environments.
Results
Legacy content preserved and migrated to Markdown-driven pages
Mostly static site served from a global CDN with a small serverless back end
Spam-protected forms with no form server to maintain
Staging and production environments with automated deployments
Built with AI-assisted development using GitHub Copilot
Seattle Gujarati Cultural Society: membership and events platform on Azure
Seattle Gujarati Cultural Society (SGCS) · Greater Seattle Area, WA · Visit live site
Built a full-stack Next.js membership and events platform for a 501(c)(3) cultural nonprofit that has served Seattle since 1993, hosted on Microsoft Azure with online payments, member email and automated CI/CD.
Challenge
SGCS connects Gujarati families across the Seattle area through festivals such as Navratri Garba, senior programs and community service. The society needed a secure member portal with online membership payments, event information and email communication with members.
Solution
Desai InfoTech built a Next.js web application on managed Azure hosting with a managed database and cloud storage. Members get a secure self-service portal and online membership payments, and the society can send consent-aware event and campaign email through Azure email services. Scheduled jobs and GitHub Actions pipelines automate routine operations.
Results
Self-service membership sign-up and renewal with online payments
Secure member portal
Consent-aware event and campaign email to members
Automated operations and CI/CD pipelines
AI-search ready with llms.txt and structured data, built with AI-assisted engineering
