Backend engineer with 8+ years of total experience. I build and run systems in Django, with Node.js and TypeScript alongside: typed API contracts, test suites that run in CI, and deployments I maintain myself.

• Backend first - Schema design, REST APIs and the business rules behind them
• Tested and typed - Integration tests that run in CI, and API contracts generated from one schema
• Self-hosted - Linux servers with PostgreSQL that I provision, back up and upgrade myself
• Business software - CRM, operations and lead workflows for schools, clinics and small businesses

Location: Badlapur, Maharashtra, India 🇮🇳
Experience: 8+ years of total experience
Current Status: Freelance Software Engineer · Open to remote roles
Website: akashdamle.in

My main product: a CRM that arrives already set up for how your business works (sales, agency, real estate or field services) instead of making you configure it first. It is being built now in a private repository.

One part of it will go online, free for everyone to use, and will be listed here alongside the other projects when it is released.

Lead management built to a short deadline as a qualification task

• Tech: Django REST Framework, PostgreSQL, React, TypeScript, Docker
• Features: Lead creation, assignment, a validated status pipeline, notes, an automatic activity timeline and a public enquiry form
• Highlights: Role-based access enforced on the server, TypeScript types generated from the OpenAPI schema and checked in CI, rotating and blacklisted JWT refresh tokens
• Release: v1.0.0 with a public Docker image and a live demo (until 26 December 2026)
• Write-up: akashdamle.in/projects/lead-platform

A self-hostable service that delivers signed webhooks and keeps every attempt on record

• Tech: Node.js, TypeScript, Fastify, PostgreSQL, Zod, Docker
• Features: Endpoint subscriptions, admin and publish-only API keys, HMAC-SHA256 signatures, retries with jitter, a failed-delivery queue, manual replay and a full attempt history
• Highlights: Idempotency keys so concurrent requests create one event, fenced worker leases that survive crashes, secret rotation with a 24-hour overlap, SSRF-safe outbound requests
• Release: v1.0.0 under MIT with a public Docker image and a live demo (until 28 December 2026)
• Write-up: akashdamle.in/projects/webhook-delivery

The staff side of a small organisation, from shifts and leave to payroll, built with fictional data

• Tech: Django, Django REST Framework, PostgreSQL, Docker
• Features: Staff and roles, shifts and attendance, leave reviews, office timesheets and overtime, monthly payroll, reports
• Highlights: Role-scoped access with hidden records returning 404, working-day pro-rating with overtime paid exactly once, pay runs that lock
• Release: v1.0.0 with a public Docker image and a live demo (until 27 December 2026)
• Write-up: akashdamle.in/projects/operations-api

India's postal directory as a lookup page, a JSON API and a one-file download

• Tech: Django, Django REST Framework, SQLite, Docker
• Features: PIN lookup, office search, whole-directory download, bring your own dataset
• Highlights: All-or-nothing imports, one-request lookup page with no JavaScript, provenance on every page
• Release: v1.0.0 with a public Docker image and a live demo (until 26 December 2026)
• Write-up: akashdamle.in/projects/bharat-post-dir

Fuel prices for India (by state) and the world (by country), compared side by side and run on your own computer

• Tech: Python, HTMX, Tailwind CSS, standard-library HTTP server
• Features: Petrol, diesel, kerosene and crude oil, search and sort, currency conversion and CSV export of the current view
• Highlights: Parsers refuse rather than guess, a second source cross-checks the India figures, and nothing fetched is committed to the repository
• Status: A personal research project under MIT; not an official source of prices
• Write-up: akashdamle.in/projects/fuelora

The source for akashdamle.in: my projects, their write-ups and a blog

• Tech: Next.js, React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS
• Features: A write-up per project (problem, constraint, approach, outcome), a blog, light and dark themes, generated share cards
• Highlights: One profile file drives the site, the sitemap and both résumé PDFs, so they never state different facts

Complete software that is not public, so there are no links:

• Rootstock - a Django starter with authentication, HTMX and Tailwind templates and optional APIs, tested across Python and Django versions in CI
• Pro Meet Desk - appointment and meeting management for professionals in India, with public booking pages, approvals, private notes and an audit trail

• Built and self-host Django CRM systems for 27+ clients: schools, clinics and small businesses
• Covering employee management, payroll, attendance and reporting
• Own the backend on every engagement: schema design, REST API, provisioning, release and support
• Sole engineer on some engagements; on others, alongside a frontend developer
• Run self-managed Linux servers with PostgreSQL, including backups, TLS and upgrades

• Built and maintained internal web applications on Django 2.2 LTS
• Wrote unit and database-level tests to keep regressions out of releases
• Introduced CI/CD pipelines to shorten the release cycle
• Managed deployments to Linux servers, AWS and Heroku with minimal downtime

• Learned Django on a live codebase with the team that hired me the following year

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc), Computer Science
P V G's College Of Science (2014 - 2018)

• Full Stack Development - Internshala (Oct 2025 - Apr 2026)
• Master the Coding Interview: Data Structures + Algorithms - Udemy (Apr 2025 - Jan 2026)
• The Complete JavaScript Course - Udemy (Jun 2025 - Nov 2025)
• Microservices with Node.js and React - Udemy (Apr 2024 - Sep 2025)
• The Complete Full-Stack Web Development Bootcamp - Udemy (Jun 2023 - Feb 2024)
• Python Django: The Practical Guide - Udemy (Jan 2021 - Aug 2021)

Status: 🟢 Open to remote backend roles