Backend engineer. Django, at production scale.

Four years building the systems behind SaaS platforms, real-estate portals and medical education — REST APIs, asynchronous data pipelines, and the deployments that keep them running. Currently senior backend developer at AAJneeti Connect, Noida.

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Noida, India · Python · Django · DRF · PostgreSQL · Redis · Celery

Prashant Kumar

4 years

building production backends

30+

projects shipped

100+

clients on one analytics platform

100+

ad accounts synced on schedule

Selected work

Twenty-seven of them listed here, across SaaS, real estate, healthcare and education.

    How I work

    The same six steps on every project, whether it is a one-page portal or a platform billing a hundred clients three different ways.

    Requirements

    Work starts from written requirement documents rather than a verbal brief, so the modules are specified before any code is written. If a rule is not written down, it gets asked about, not guessed.

    Data model

    The schema is where the real decisions live. Four enrolment flows that differ in eligibility, payment and record-keeping still belong in one coherent model — without a dozen nullable columns or four copies of the same logic.

    API design

    DRF endpoints standardised on a single {success, message, data, meta} envelope, errors included, so a frontend never has to write a transformation layer and adding a module never adds a special case.

    Async and scheduling

    Anything slow or recurring moves to Celery and Celery Beat, with the error boundary drawn around the smallest unit of work so one failure costs that unit and not the whole run.

    Hardening

    N+1 queries removed by computing metrics once per client before serialisation, relations pulled with select_related and prefetch_related, bulk writes, and Redis in front of the heaviest reads with a TTL and an on-demand bust. Tests before deploys, not after: anything touching untrusted input gets a malicious-input test before it ships, and the live system gets checked with real requests afterwards.

    Ship and run

    Gunicorn behind Nginx on DigitalOcean, with the Celery worker and Beat managed as Systemd services so they come back with the machine and are operated the same way as everything else on the box.

    Experience

    Senior Software Developer AAJneeti Connect Ltd.

    Jun 2024 – Present

    • Built a multi-tenant marketing analytics platform serving 100+ clients across CPL, hybrid and retainer billing models.
    • Designed the DRF API surface on a single response envelope, so every consumer parses results the same way.
    • Wrote the Celery and Celery Beat pipelines that ingest advertising data on a schedule without manual intervention.
    • Deployed and maintained production on DigitalOcean with Gunicorn, Nginx and Systemd-managed services.

    Software Developer Unimart Retail Pvt. Ltd.

    Jun 2023 – May 2024

    • Built e-commerce backend modules in Django and PostgreSQL — authentication, cart, checkout and REST APIs.
    • Owned production deployments end to end.
    • Profiled and tuned application performance to improve response times under customer-facing load.

    Full Stack Web Developer Bhartiya Tech Info Solutions

    May 2022 – May 2023

    • Delivered Django and PostgreSQL applications across healthcare, education, news and business domains.
    • Handled backend development and REST integrations on client projects.
    • Managed deployments, SSL configuration and server administration.

    Education

    BCA, Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut — 2019–2022

    Skills

    Languages

    Python, SQL, JavaScript

    Backend

    Django, Django REST Framework, REST API design, Celery, Celery Beat

    Data

    PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, Redis

    Deployment

    DigitalOcean, Gunicorn, Nginx, Systemd, Linux, Git

    Integrations

    Meta Marketing API, webhooks, CRM integrations

    Frontend

    HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, JavaScript

    Education platforms: course catalogs, enrolment flows, memberships, and conference registration.

    About

    I'm a full stack developer with four years of experience designing, building and shipping web applications that are scalable, reliable, and built around the people who use them. My core stack is Python, Django and Django REST Framework, paired with modern frontend technologies to deliver fast, responsive interfaces.

    My strength is backend architecture: designing clean RESTful APIs, modelling data for performance and growth, and building systems that stay maintainable as requirements evolve. On the frontend, I focus on interfaces that make complex workflows feel simple. I'm comfortable owning a project end to end — turning ambiguous business requirements into a clear technical plan, through development and deployment, to monitoring and maintaining applications in production.

    In the office that mostly means backend: the frontend team builds and updates the interface, and I step in on the parts they can't take further. On freelance work I handle the whole thing myself — frontend, backend and deployment.

    Get in touch

    Noida, India. Open to conversations about backend work.

    GitHub (work)
    github.com/prashant00026