Kochi, IndiaNo. 4 · Friday, 2 October 2026v0.4.0

Ajmal Roshan

Backend & DevOps Engineer

Builds the software a university runs on, then keeps it running.

Admissions for ten thousand applicants a year, hostel seats for three thousand students, and the bill for every meal in between.

I like owning a system end to end: modelling the data, writing the API, putting it behind a load balancer, and being the one who gets paged when it breaks. Most of what I have built started as a paper process at Cochin University of Science and Technology and ended as software that departments now depend on.

The admissions platform replaced forms across more than eight departments. Hostel seats are allotted by a location-priority algorithm instead of a spreadsheet. The mess bills itself at the end of every month. Most of it is Django behind Nginx, on PostgreSQL or SQLite, shipped in Docker containers.

I am completing a B.Tech, Electronics & Communication at CUSAT (2026) and work on native iOS apps at Lascade Co. I am open to backend, platform and DevOps roles.

In production

Full index of work →

10k+ applications / year

CUSAT Admissions Platform

University-wide admission system for the five-year integrated MSc programmes. Replaced paper workflows across more than eight departments.

Django, DRF, Docker · fyugp.cusat.ac.in

3k+ students

Hostel Allotment System

Automated hostel seat allocation driven by a location-priority algorithm, with live dashboards for wardens and administrators.

PostgreSQL, DRF, Nginx · hostels.cusat.ac.in

2k+ active users

Messy — Mess Management

Meal attendance tracking and automated monthly bill generation for hostel food services, scaled across multiple hostels.

Django, SQLite, Metabase · messy.cusat.xyz

200+ concurrent users

Sargam Fest Platform

Registration and event management for the university cultural festival, load-balanced behind Nginx for peak-hour traffic.

Django, PostgreSQL, AWS · sargamcusat.com

Clients reach a TLS-terminating Nginx load balancer, which forwards to two Django application servers backed by PostgreSQL, Redis and Celery workers.browseriOS appAPI clientNginxTLS, LBDjangoapp 1Djangoapp 2PostgreSQLRedisCeleryclientsedgeapplicationstate & jobs
Fig. 1. The deployment shape shared by most of the systems above: a TLS-terminating Nginx load balancer in front of stateless Django application servers, with PostgreSQL for state, Redis for caching and queues, and Celery for background work.

Experience

Jan 2025 – Present

App Developer, Lascade Co

  • Shipped and optimised two iOS apps with real-time analytics and BI tooling.
  • Reduced load and network cost by reworking caching and replacing API polling.

May 2023 – Aug 2023

Full Stack Engineer, Intern, Lamsta

  • Built the frontend of an event-management platform, turning Figma designs into reusable production components.

Notes

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  1. How this site is built and shipped

    Astro, zero client-side JavaScript, nginx on an always-free Oracle Cloud VM, and tag-driven releases.

Also on the desk

RideLoop

Motorcycle telemetry: an ESP32-S3 logger with GPS and IMU streaming a live WebSocket dashboard to a handlebar-mounted phone.

ajuroshan/rideloop

Dev Container

A reusable devcontainer with common developer tools, cloud CLIs, AI CLIs and an optional GUI browser session.

ajuroshan/dev-container

Homelab

Self-hosted server for databases and web apps with Dockerised deploys and remote access over Tailscale.

Tools of the trade

Backend
Python · Django · DRF · Celery · Redis
Infrastructure
Docker · Linux · Nginx · GitHub Actions · Grafana · AWS · OCI
Data
PostgreSQL · SQLite · Firebase · Metabase
Mobile
Swift · SwiftUI · UIKit · Combine

Correspondence

Write to me.

For backend, platform and DevOps work, or to ask about any of the systems above.

[email protected]

github.com/ajuroshan · linkedin.com/in/ajuroshan