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Sahil Sayyed

Student at Thakur Ramnarayan College of arts and Commerce

Mumbai

2+ years of work experience

Freelance | Self-Employed
Jun 20242 yrs 1 moPresent

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Backend Developer — Independent Projects · 2023 – Present · Mumbai, India 1] Designed, built, and deployed 12+ backend systems end-to-end — covering schema design, API development, async pipelines, authentication flows, and cloud deployment on Render. 2] Developed a full-stack e-commerce backend independently — product listings, cart logic, user authentication, and order management — handling the full project lifecycle from design to production. 3] Diagnosed and resolved production failures across live deployments: OAuth state/session mismatches, SameSite/Secure cookie misconfigurations, Django ORM migration conflicts, and JWT expiry edge cases. 4] Maintained modular architecture across Flask and Django projects, separating auth, models, and routing layers for clarity and maintainability. 5] Automated database migrations on Render via pre-deploy hooks, eliminating manual steps from every redeployment cycle. 6] Integrated Groq and Google Gemini across multiple projects — engineered structured prompts for consistent JSON output, implemented per-user rate limiting, and wired GitHub webhooks to trigger automated AI review pipelines. 7]Implemented JWT access/refresh token rotation, RBAC, Google OAuth2, and Firebase Auth across multiple deployed APIs.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Science in Information technology

Thakur ramnarayan college of arts and commerce

Thakur Ramnarayan Public School

Bachelor of Science, Information Technology

Thakur Ramnarayan Public School

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Headline

Student at Thakur Ramnarayan College of arts and Commerce

About

Backend-focused engineer with hands-on experience building and deploying production-ready Django and Flask applications with PostgreSQL, JWT authentication, OAuth2 workflows, REST APIs, and AI-integrated systems. Built scalable backend services including an AI-powered code review platform with Groq LLM integration, webhook automation, structured response pipelines, RBAC, and rate limiting. Experienced in debugging real production issues including OAuth state mismatches, cookie/session failures, migration conflicts, and deployment edge cases. Strong focus on backend architecture, authentication systems, deployment workflows, API design, and cloud-ready engineering practices. Tech Stack: Python, Django, Flask, PostgreSQL, DRF, JWT, OAuth2, GitHub Webhooks, Render, AWS fundamentals. GitHub: github.com/Sahil-TRCAC

Location

Mumbai

Work experience

Back End Developer at Freelance | Self-Employed, Jun 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 1 mo, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Backend Developer — Independent Projects · 2023 – Present · Mumbai, India 1] Designed, built, and deployed 12+ backend systems end-to-end — covering schema design, API development, async pipelines, authentication flows, and cloud deployment on Render. 2] Developed a full-stack e-commerce backend independently — product listings, cart logic, user authentication, and order management — handling the full project lifecycle from design to production. 3] Diagnosed and resolved production failures across live deployments: OAuth state/session mismatches, SameSite/Secure cookie misconfigurations, Django ORM migration conflicts, and JWT expiry edge cases. 4] Maintained modular architecture across Flask and Django projects, separating auth, models, and routing layers for clarity and maintainability. 5] Automated database migrations on Render via pre-deploy hooks, eliminating manual steps from every redeployment cycle. 6] Integrated Groq and Google Gemini across multiple projects — engineered structured prompts for consistent JSON output, implemented per-user rate limiting, and wired GitHub webhooks to trigger automated AI review pipelines. 7]Implemented JWT access/refresh token rotation, RBAC, Google OAuth2, and Firebase Auth across multiple deployed APIs.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Science in Information technology, Thakur ramnarayan college of arts and commerce

Bachelor of Science, Information Technology, Thakur Ramnarayan Public School

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