Backend Tech Lead — Python, Django, FastAPI, Kubernetes. 10+ years building and scaling production systems.
- Backend architecture — multi-tenant SaaS, monolith-to-microservices migration, event-driven systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
- DevOps — Kubernetes, GitOps, Docker, GitHub Actions CI/CD
- Product engineering — I'm the solo engineer (backend, frontend, infra, CI/CD) in a two-person team building JodRubJai, a personal finance SaaS live in production
PythonDjangoFastAPIStrawberry GraphQLPostgreSQLRedisKafkaRabbitMQKubernetesDockerGitHub Actions
- 🔭 AI engineering — see vacancy-radar, a local-first job-application tracker (markdown vault, hybrid BM25 + vector search, MCP server so any LLM client can read/write it directly) —
pip install vacancy-radar - 🍓 Built scaffold-strawberry-django, a portable Agent Skill that scaffolds Strawberry-Django GraphQL layers — works in Claude Code, OpenCode, and other Agent-Skills-compatible tools
- django-allauth — built the 23andMe OAuth2 provider from scratch (2016), still shipping in the library today
- django-rest-auth — fixed login for custom user models without a username field, fixed a broken allauth import
- strawberry-django — added string-based lookups for UUID fields, more verbose test-assertion messages
- wagtail-localize — added Django 6.0 support
- fcm-django — swappable device model, fixed a migration rollback bug
- djangoql — added search support for binary fields
- django-celery-beat — fixed a day-of-week display bug
- django-languages-plus — Django 5 compatibility
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