Available for consulting
Kuldeep Pisda — engineering leader & consultant
I build the backends and AI systems founders bet the business on.
REST APIs, PostgreSQL, and increasingly the AI systems on top — LLM agents, RAG, semantic search — on backends built to carry real production load, and the migrations that keep it all intact.
Client work
All case studies →
Consulting
Services →Django & DRF architecture
API design, service boundaries, and admin-heavy internal tools.
Performance work
Query plans, caching, and task queues — measured, not guessed.
Migrations without the mess
Platform moves and upgrades that keep URLs and data intact.
Fractional backend leadership
Review culture, CI/CD, and delivery cadence for small teams.
Open Source
All projects →django-rls
Row-level security for Django on PostgreSQL — policies as model metadata, enforced in the database.
KRONOS
Research-grade plane-wave DFT engine in C++20 — ground-state energies, forces, and band structures for crystalline systems.
python-pay-ccavenue
Python package for integrating the CCAvenue payment gateway — secure encryption and decryption of payment data, typed throughout.
Speaking
All talks →Writing
All posts →
Secret Messages: Understanding Encryption vs. Hashing Through a 90s Love Story
The year was 1998. A time of dial-up internet, boy bands, and passing notes in class. For 16-year-old Alex and Jamie, passing notes was their lifeline—a private channel in a world where their parents monitored everything from phone calls to AOL Instant Messenger. It began innocently enough. Folded notebook paper slipped between textbooks during class changes. Messages hidden in borrowed CDs. Notes taped under cafeteria tables to be retrieved later. "Meet me at the mall on Saturday? My dad can
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From Zero to Scalable APIs in Django — A Full-Day Hands-On Workshop in Bengaluru
Disaster Recovery Planning Checklist: The Guide I Wish I Had Years Ago
Join Kuldeep Pisda at PyConf Hyderabad 2025 for a hands-on workshop on mastering Test-Driven Development in Django using factory_boy and faker
