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About Me

The person
behind
the code.

I'm Ashwani — a full-stack developer from New Delhi, backend at heart. Three years of real government infrastructure: raw SQL first, then APIs, then full production platforms as a freelancer. Systems that citizens and businesses actually depend on.

Open to Work Pan India Remote OK IIT Mandi · In Progress
3+
Years
10+
Cities
50+
APIs
3
Data Centers
Ashwani Kumar
FULL-STACK DEVELOPER · BACKEND SPECIALIST
LocationNew Delhi · Open Pan India
Experience3+ Years (DB → Backend → Freelance)
SpecialityDjango · FastAPI · PostgreSQL
EducationIIT Mandi SD Cert. (In Progress)
Status● Available for hire
01 —Career Story

My path ran database-first. Before frameworks, before APIs, I was the person designing the schema that everything else would sit on — for live, citizen-facing government infrastructure. That foundation shaped how I think about every layer above it.

From the data layer I moved into Python backend at the same company, then into full-stack freelance: building and shipping complete production platforms end-to-end. The timeline below has the full detail.

FEB 2026 — PRESENT
Full-Stack Developer
Freelance · Remote
  • Built and deployed skylinewheels.in — live Bajaj dealership platform with Redis caching (~40% load improvement), VAPID push notifications, WhatsApp Business API, Cloudinary CDN, Jazzmin admin, 8 production security controls, and GitHub Actions CI/CD on Railway
  • Built Bajaj Analytics BI Dashboard — Tally → PostgreSQL sync pipeline, Excel expenses import and validation, P&L tracking across 5–10 categories, on-demand PDF/Excel report generation; cut reporting time from 12 hours to under 1 minute
  • Developed Mogli Flow Club website for a calisthenics business in Mayur Vihar — member enrollment, Firebase backend, dark athletic design
  • Built FlowBoard — real-time Kanban PM tool with Django Channels, Celery Beat, React + Vite, Docker (5 services), GitHub Actions CI/CD, and DSA-backed features
  • Exploring OpenAI and Gemini API integrations into Django backends; RAG with pgvector
Django PostgreSQL Redis Railway React Docker
SEPT 2023 — JUNE 2025
Backend Developer (Python)
GIS Consortium India Pvt. Ltd. · Noida, UP
  • Built REST APIs for the e-governance survey platform — serving both mobile and web clients across 5+ municipal corporations
  • Deployed production systems on AWS EC2 and integrated S3 for image upload pipelines
  • Implemented JWT auth, RBAC across 6 roles, and 20+ secured endpoints with zero privilege escalation in production lifetime
  • Reduced report query latency 40% via ORM optimization — select_related, prefetch_related, and indexed query tuning
  • Owned API delivery for citizen-facing services: property tax, water billing, and complaint management systems
Django DRF AWS EC2 S3 JWT / RBAC PostgreSQL
SEPT 2022 — AUG 2023
Database Developer
GIS Consortium India Pvt. Ltd. · Noida, UP
  • Designed and maintained SQL databases for state government property tax and survey infrastructure
  • Built a multi-city tax calculation system handling 10+ cities with varying tax rate configurations — all computed inside the database layer
  • Managed database backups, disaster recovery procedures, and migrations across 3+ state government data centers
  • Designed the backend database schema for the survey application — relationships, normalization, and indexes built to support the API layer that followed
  • Operated on production data that underpinned citizen-facing government services — zero data loss across tenure
SQL Server PostgreSQL Schema Design Backup & Recovery Data Migration
02 —How I Work

These aren't just values — they're the principles that show up in every pull request, every API design decision, and every client call.

Ship Fast, Fix Faster
Iteration beats perfection. Get to production, then improve. A shipped product beats a perfect mockup.
Fundamentals First
Frameworks change. SQL, OS, networking, and algorithms don't. I invest deeply in the foundation — starting from the database up.
Read the Docs
Not Stack Overflow-first. I read source code and official documentation before asking questions.
Honest Communication
Deadlines, blockers, scope changes — I communicate clearly and early. No surprises.

Learning Never Stops

Self-Directed Learning
System Design & Architecture
2022 — Present
CAP theorem, consistency models, scalability, latency vs throughput trade-offs, CDN patterns, caching strategies, and distributed systems. Applied directly to production projects and studied daily with a write-your-own-summary review method.
CAP Theorem Scalability CDN Latency
DSA & Problem Solving
Algorithms & Data Structures
2024 — Present
Working through NeetCode 150 in Python with a code-from-memory revision approach — 30+ problems completed. Topics done: Arrays/Hashing, Two Pointers, Sliding Window, Stacks/Queues, Binary Search, Linked Lists. One topic block per day, every day.
Python NeetCode 150 LeetCode In Progress

Client Projects

Real requirements, real deadlines, real users. Three current and recent client builds that span a live dealership platform, a financial BI system, and a fitness business website.

Client · Live in Production
Skyline Wheels — Bajaj Dealership

Full dealership platform — bike inventory, service bookings, exchange requests, lead management. Redis caching for ~40% load improvement, Cloudinary media pipelines, VAPID web push notifications, WhatsApp Business API follow-up, and Jazzmin admin. Deployed on Railway + Supabase with GitHub Actions CI/CD and Cloudflare SSL/TLS.

Live Django PostgreSQL Redis
Client · Deployed
Bajaj Analytics — BI Dashboard

Financial intelligence platform for the same Bajaj client. Tally accounting data syncs into PostgreSQL; Excel expense records import via a validation pipeline. P&L tracking across 5–10 categories with daily, monthly, and quarterly views. On-demand PDF and Excel report generation — reduced report prep from 12 hours to under 1 minute.

Deployed Django PostgreSQL Tally API
Client · In Development
Mogli Flow Club — Calisthenics Business

Website for a calisthenics training business in Mayur Vihar, New Delhi. Multi-page site with member enrollment, admin panel, Firebase backend, and a custom dark athletic design — Bebas Neue, lime-green accents, mobile-first.

In Progress Firebase HTML/CSS/JS