feat: reliability and performance hardening (faster-whisper, state machine, adaptive polling)

feat: implement background task processing with Celery and Redis

feat: implement guest storage, refine interview flow, and fix UI crashes

fix: production audit fixes (race conditions, caching, timeouts)

feat: stabilize Veridian system with state recovery, idempotency fixes, and unified design

fix: resolve white screen and finalize system integration

Phase 2 Complete: Auth, Dashboard, Analytics

feat: complete multimodal interview pipeline redesign

Fix project extraction, setup UI placeholders, telemetry bug, UI enhancements

Implement CPU fallback system for ASR and LLM scoring

Remove all Colab/ngrok refs; full responsive CSS overhaul all pages

deploy: add Vercel + Hugging Face Space deployment support

Final updated project