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.

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

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

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

• 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