devilsautumn

About

Things I Believe

  • Software should solve real problems, not just look impressive. I like building things that are useful, clear, and actually improve how people work, connect, or create.
  • Open source can change careers. Django shaped mine, and I want to make it easier for more people to contribute, learn, and grow.
  • Good engineering is not just code. It is understanding the problem, making trade-offs, communicating clearly, and taking ownership of what you build.

What I Am Trying To Do

I want to get better at the whole loop, not just the coding part: noticing a real problem, building a small version, showing it to people, hearing that it is mid, and improving it anyway.

I have not built a breakout success yet. That is the honest version. I keep building because every attempt teaches me where my taste is fake, where my assumptions are weak, and what people actually care about.

What I Work With

  • Backend engineering
    Django, Python, APIs, PostgreSQL, Celery, Redis, Docker, and production systems.
  • Product building
    Early-stage apps, user workflows, MVPs, product experiments, and fast iteration.
  • Open source
    Django, GSoC, contributor experience, contribution guidance, and maintainable project tooling.
  • Community building
    Django India, meetups across 10+ Indian cities, DjangoDay India, events, and developer outreach.
  • AI products
    LLMs, agents, evaluations, AI workflows, and practical AI features.
  • Web and mobile
    Next.js, React Native/Expo, deployment, app store workflows, and frontend-backend integration.

Experience

  • Data engineer, Coforge (Contract work)
    Built production data pipelines for a private enterprise client, processing 100+ files per day.
  • Co-Founder, Self-employed (Aug 2025 - Mar 2026)
    Built an HR-tech platform from scratch with Django, Next.js, AWS ECS, RDS, S3, and CI/CD. Led a small engineering team and helped decide what the product should become.
  • SDE 1, Zelthy (Jul 2024 - Jul 2025)
    Worked on Zango, an open-source Django framework. Set up the test suite, added ruff and pre-commit, rewrote large parts of the docs, and managed production data pipelines for 1M+ users.
  • SDE Intern, Humalect Technologies (Oct 2023 - Apr 2024)
    Built backend features for alerts and recommendations, replaced slow ORM paths with tuned Postgres queries, and worked on ingestion pipelines with Snowflake and Databricks.

Elsewhere

Contact

The easiest way to reach me is by email: bhuvnesh.works@gmail.com.