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Ashish Pitroda
Senior full-stack developer. I build, fix, upgrade and take ownership of web applications — from the database through to deployment.
That's a wagtail. The CMS I know best is named after it.
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Approach
Anyone can start a project.
Fewer can rescue one.
I do both, and stay for the rest.
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A field guide to the work
six kinds of work, usually seen together
Plate 01
Wagtail CMS
Specialism · 8+ years
Custom page models, StreamField blocks, admin work, and the version upgrades teams stall on.
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Django & Python
Backend · core
Applications, data models, REST APIs, and the query work that keeps them fast under load.
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Frontend
Vue · Next.js
Vue and Next.js interfaces, wired to the backend by the same person who wrote it.
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Integrations
REST · payments
Payment gateways, auth, webhooks, and sync between systems never designed to talk.
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AWS & speed
EC2 · S3 · Nginx
Deployment, Nginx, SSL, caching and CDN — plus the bugs that only appear under real traffic.
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Takeover
Legacy · ownership
Inheriting a codebase, finding the real cause, and owning it long term.
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Specimen drawer
things I have built
Projects I have built, pinned in as they are finished — each with a working demo where there is one.
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Method
the same five entries, every project
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01Audit
Understand what is actually there.
I read the codebase, reproduce the problem, and find the real cause rather than the first symptom. You get a plain summary of what is wrong and what fixing it takes.
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02Plan
Break it into milestones.
Scope, estimates and priorities, ordered so something useful ships early. You see the trade-offs, which keeps the decisions about time and cost yours rather than mine.
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03Build
Write it, then test it.
Features developed against real data and tested before they reach you. I use AI tooling to move faster, and I review, secure and understand everything I ship with it.
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04Ship
Into production, carefully.
Deployment, servers, SSL, caching and CDN. Releases are staged so problems are caught in advance, instead of your users being the ones who find them first.
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05Support
Stay on after launch.
Maintenance, upgrades and the occasional emergency. Work stays documented as it goes, so you are never locked in to me — you keep me because it is useful.
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Habitat
sorted by how often I'm found there
Daily, for years
The centre of the work.
Regularly, and confidently
Enough to own the whole application.
Where the work has taken me
Real projects, not tutorials.
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