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title: "Aniket Sonawane - Backend Developer — WhatBytes in Aurangabad | Tal"
description: "Meet Aniket Sonawane, Backend Engineer @WhatBytes | Python, Django | REST APIs | Scalable Systems | PostgreSQL based in Aurangabad. Explore public work links including github."
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# Aniket Sonawane on Tal

## Headline

Backend Engineer @WhatBytes \| Python, Django \| REST APIs \| Scalable Systems \| PostgreSQL

## About

70\+ APIs shipped\. Two platforms taken from zero to production\. That’s real backend engineering\. I build backend systems that handle real users, real transactions, and real\-world edge cases — designed for reliability, scalability, and performance\. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ At Venu \(restaurant booking platform\), I owned the backend end\-to\-end: → Built across 9 Django apps, 15\+ models, and 50\+ production APIs → Designed a complete booking lifecycle \(DRAFT → REQUESTED → ACCEPTED / REJECTED / CANCELLED\) with audit history → Solved double\-booking using DB transactions and row\-level locking → Improved API performance by 30–40% by eliminating N\+1 queries and optimizing DB operations → Implemented RBAC \+ JWT auth, Google Sign\-In, OTP flows, and transactional email systems → Integrated AWS S3 media handling, bulk upload systems, and admin\-level access control At Zentro \(food delivery platform\): → Built 20\+ APIs across orders, cart, checkout, and restaurant discovery → Integrated Stripe payments \(Payment Intents \+ webhooks\) → Implemented Firebase notifications and Twilio OTP authentication → Designed secure multi\-role systems with scoped data access ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ I focus on building backend systems that are not just functional — but scalable, consistent, and production\-ready from day one\. Tech stack: Python · Django · DRF · PostgreSQL · AWS · JWT · RBAC · Stripe · Firebase · Twilio · Docker · CI/CD Strong foundation in Data Structures & Algorithms \(150\+ problems solved\), enabling efficient system design and performance\-focused development\. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ If you're building systems where backend quality, scalability, and ownership matter, let’s connect\. sonawane\.aniket1105@gmail\.com

## Location

Aurangabad

## Work experience

Backend Developer — WhatBytes at WhatBytes, Dec 2025 \- Present · 6 mos, Telangana, India, Worked as a Backend Engineer at WhatBytes, building and scaling production\-grade platforms across restaurant booking and food delivery domains\. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Project: Venu \(Restaurant Booking Platform\) • Owned end\-to\-end backend development, building the platform across 9\+ Django apps and 15–20 models from zero to production • Engineered and shipped 50\+ REST APIs covering booking lifecycle, onboarding, pricing, and admin workflows using Django REST Framework and PostgreSQL • Designed a 5\-stage booking lifecycle with audit history and state management for reliable booking flows • Architected concurrency\-safe systems using DB transactions and row\-level locking, eliminating double\-booking under concurrent requests • Implemented RBAC \(Admin, Restaurant Admin, User\) with custom JWT authentication for secure, role\-based access • Integrated AWS S3, Google Sign\-In, OTP authentication, and transactional email systems for a complete production\-ready backend • Optimized API performance by 30–40% by resolving N\+1 queries using prefetch\_related and database\-level aggregations ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Project: Zentro \(Food Delivery & Ordering Platform\) • Developed 20\+ REST APIs for order management, cart, checkout, and restaurant discovery • Integrated Stripe payments using Payment Intent and webhook handling for real\-time transaction tracking • Implemented Firebase push notifications and Twilio OTP\-based authentication flows • Built secure multi\-role admin systems with scoped access control to prevent cross\-entity data exposure • Designed APIs for order lifecycle tracking, retry mechanisms, and status handling ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Impact • 70\+ APIs shipped across platforms • 30–40% improvement in API performance • Built scalable backend systems handling real\-world use cases

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \(B\.Tech\), Computer Science & Engineering, Dr\.Babasaheb Ambedkar Technological University, Lonere \- Raigad

## Public links

- github: https://github\.com/AniketSonawane11

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